I have a DSL hookup in my home. I use an ethernet wire to connect my PC directly to the wire in the wall which connects directly to the box on the outside of house. I want to hook up my home theater system to the internet. Can I run a wire directly from the box on the side of my house to the HTS or does it need to go through the computer first? I tried to run a wire directly to the HTS but it will not connect. After all connections were made the computer still worked but not the HTS.
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You need a router.
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I just went through this.
First you need to connect your TV to your computer as if it were an external monitor using either a HDMI or SVGA cable. I ended up using the SVGA cable (long story) I tried HDMI but couldn't get the surround sound to work so after many evolutions I ended up with SVGA and a typical sound output cable from the computer to the reciever for the home theater sys. This is the point I almost ended up in the nuthouse. My surround sound would not work. I had a cable tech here for something else one day and told him about it and he tells me that I need to unplug the optical cable between the tv and the digital box because the tv (Sony Bravia) is overriding the signal from the computer. Bit of a pain to have to unplug the cable but it works.
I am not sure that I explained this correctly but if that doesn't get you going I will look into it further. I started counting cables one day and when I got to 40 i gave up....... That includes power,speakers, peripherals, Blackberry and home theater none of which are wireless except my mouse and headphones.
Good luck
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The router is probably the best answer. That will do the "crossover" your HTS is probably looking for but more importantly it allows your computer and he HTS to share the connection.
The crossover can be accomplished with a yellow cable too (generally what color a crossover cable is). That flips the in and out, similar to the old "null modem" and replaces the router for one device.
Most DSL modems and some PC cards are smart enough to figure this out and do it internally, using either type of cable.
That sounds really bad. You don't have a router/firewall between the DSL and your computer/internal network? If so, that's rather dangerous.
Get a GOOD router what includes a firewall of some sort. Most $100-ish routers will easily support wireless and 2-4 ethernet ports as well so you wouldn't even need to get a hub.
Consider using existing house wires.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Netgear-Expand-Your-Network/Netgear-Wired-Powerline/pcmcat158700050009.c?id=pcmcat158700050009
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Your DSL provider should have given you a router with firewall and optionally wireless included. Call them and get one. Unless, maybe you cannot ask for one?
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When I had DSL, they brought it to inside face of the wall and it was my baby from there. With cable, they provide a modem and it's mine from there.copper p0rn
Here I have Verizon DSL (awaiting FIOS). They gave me a wireless modem/router. Replaced one no $$$ too. $29.99/month for 3.0 mbps. Different areas/providers must have different deals.
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Thank you all for your replies. If there is a router, I don't know where it is. The line comes into the house from the box to a jack on the wall and I plug a line from the wall to the back of my tower. Now I do have a wireless router that I purchased because my son bought a laptop and wanted it, but most of the time I don't use it because the computer seems to be faster without it. When I run a line from the wireless router to the HTS it does work, but like I said, I prefer not to use it if I don't have to. I don't understand why a direct line to the HTS doesn't work.
Maybe because the HTS doesn't know how to log on with a password to the DSL provider???
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Doesn't the wireless router have several output ports on it as well? I've never seen a stand-alone one that didn't.
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Again, I wish to thank you all for your answers. It looks like I will have to hook everything up through the wireless router. Just for your information the box on the OUTSIDE of the house has what looks to me like two distinct sides. One side has four screws for a red, black, green, and yellow wires. Obviously, this is the phone line. The other side has three seperate sets of screws which I will call the CMR/CMX side. One set has the green and green/white wires screwed to them. Another set has the orange and orange/white wires screwed to them. And the third set has four screws for the blue, blue/white and brown, brown/white wires. Each set of wires appears to have an 'ethernet plug'??? next to it.
Well, at least I already have a wire running from the HTS to the new router home!
Thanks again, I'm sure I'll have more questions for you all later.
I think those "ethernet plug"s are patch ports for configuring the system different ways with a short patch cable. You should have only one cable going to the world with the other end going to a router and "split" from there.Sounds like you are in business though.TFB (Bill)
The box on the side of your house has multiple ethernet ports? Maybe it has one 6-wire ethernet jack and one 4-wire phone jack?
You definitely need a router between your computer and the DSL modem. The router will create a private subnet for your house. This is the only way your multiple devices can share the same public IP address. The WAN port connects to the DSL jack and the computer connects to one of the LAN ports. If you want to run cable from your HTS you would connect it to another LAN port on the router.
An alternative to running cable is to get a wireless router and a wireless adapter for the HTS. An 802.11g or n wireless network is fast enough to stream video.
Wow, the box is on the OUTSIDE of your place? Get a router, connect that to the box, and network any devices from the router. And, uh, put the router inside!