2wire modem

[placou 1968]

1. what are the benifets or lack of benifets by re- booting the external modem? (it is a gateway 2 wire).

2. is an external modem considered a router ?

3. what are the "need to know" issues associated with the external item and is maint. required on my part in any fashion?

4. lan connection

[kendall.a]

1. I'm not sure of the benefits, but I will tell you that tech support always told me to re-boot the modem if I was having any connection issues. (That was with a 2-Wire modem.)

2. Some external modems are also a router and some are not. For example, the Gateway 2-Wire, I believe is both. I used it with Qwest DSL service and it's all I needed. It was a modem, a wireless router, and had a built-in hardware firewall.

However, now that I'm with Comcast cable, I have both a cable modem and a wireless router (with built-in firewall).

3. The only maintenance that I'm aware of might be the occasional bios update or firmware update. Back to question #1--as I mentioned, occasionally they might need re-booted (turned off for 1 minute and turned back on).

[4goTTen21]

Originally Posted by placou 1968

1. what are the benifets or lack of benifets by re- booting the external modem? (it is a gateway 2 wire).

2. is an external modem considered a router ?

3. what are the "need to know" issues associated with the external item and is maint. required on my part in any fashion?

4. lan connection

By rebooting your modem, it will try to re-establish connection between your ISP and your PC or Router (if any). Reboot modem is just like reboot your PC but, rebooting a router you'll set default settings on it (even firmware updates in most of models).
The functionality of modem, in simple words, is to receive internet; the router distribute the signal to any device connected ).

[placou 1968]

thanks, i now understand