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Originally posted by manasecret
The cable from your TV is not cable internet. Usually Cable TV wire is a bit thicker and/or tougher, and has two male ends that are usually metal screw-like things with a skinny metal wire in the middle of the big plastic wire, which is what you see all along the outside of the wire (pretty much).
Cable Internet wire is usually Category-5 networking wire, and it's usually more flimsy and the male ends are plug-like things that lock into place where they are plugged through a little plastic latch.
You should be able to tell the difference if you look at the wire connected to your TV and compare it to the one coming from your cable modem and connecting to your computer.
How cable internet works is that you take the TV cable wire and plug it into the cable modem, and there's an out port on the cable modem where you plug one end of a network wire into and the other end into your PC. So that wire you have for your TV could be used IF you put your cable modem over there with it and went through that.
What you want is a splitter for the network wire, though I'm not sure if they are made or sold because splitting internet so that it can be used by multiple pieces of hardware at the same time is a bit more complicated than say splitting cable TV wire or telephone wires; you would need a network hub or router or some equivalent.
However, splitters may be sold. Just be warned that if it's a simple splitter, then it doesn't really split the internet, it only allows one connection at a time. In other words, your PS2 and GCN couldn't be using the internet at the same time through the splitter, or you couldn't use your PC and game console at the same time through the splitter, or whatever your setup. Only one piece of hardware could connect to the internet at any one time.
Hope that helps. If you can't find a splitter, then all you have to do is plug the network wire from the cable modem into whatever piece of hardware you want to use at that time, and unplug and replug it into the other stuff as you need it.
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K, Thanks for all the help.
I compared my cable tv wire and my cable internet wire and they both feel the same to me. Anyway, what I'll do is I'll split the cable tv wire, and I'll just use one thing at a time, like when I go to play PSO on GC I'll just shut down my PC...less complicated that way..unless I could get one of those "hubs". But I dunno where to find them.