How do you connect a Mac and PC to the internet?

Question

I have a high speed internet cable modem and wish to grant simultaneous access to the internet for both my G5 and PC. I purchased a router and tried to network through that, but it did not work. I am considering trying a wireless router -will this work?
Is it even possible to route a Mac and PC to the same cable modem?

Answer 1

I purchased a router and tried to network
through that, but it did not work. I am considering
trying a wireless router -will this work?
Is it even possible to route a Mac and PC to the same
cable modem?
Yes, it is possible. How easy it is depends on your ISP.
Some cable ISP providers program your cable modem to talk to no machine other than the one with which you 'registered' with them. That is, the machine the modem was connected to when internet service was installed.
Remove that machine and connect another, no internet.
If thats the case, then you get around it by whats called MAC address cloning. In the advanced router setup, there should be a tab for that very action. Go there, then enter the MAC address of your primary machine.
(You may also have to set DNS and domain names in the basic router setup.)
I know the Linksys web site provides detailed instructions for configuring their routers for a couple of large ISPs.