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Originally posted by Crono
Okay, I am confused about the PS2 Modem. It obviously has no port to plug in a cable wire so does this mean that you have to do this:
-----(cable-wire)----|CABLE MODEM|----[ethernet-wire]---PS2
Because the modem only has a phone line prot and an ethernet port. If I am understanding what you guys are saying (maybe I'm not), whats the point of buyin a router? (Okay I dont know a lot about PCs and cables and stuff so give me a break). Unless the router is for ethernet wires? 
Originally, it would be like this:
----(cable-wire)----|CABLE MODEM|---[ethernet-wire|---PC
Someone please explain.
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PS2 has a 56K modem, and then a NIC card. Very, very few cable modems and DSL (technically) bridges are internet. Most of them are external, and despite the stupid people who decided to make USB modems, most of them connect via ethernet.
Since you use cable. Your cable wire will go into your external cable modem. From there, your ethernet wire will be connected to whatever (router, PC, PS2). PS2 only has an ethernet port because ethernet is like the universal format for broadband.
What a router does is allows you to hook up multiple devices to it via ethernet cable, and then have all of those connect to your modem. So you can hook up your PS2 and PC to the router, and then connect the router to the modem. It also uses only 1 IP address, so ISPs can't charge you for more.
See, this is really going to be the downfall of online gaming for consoles. Sure broadband is the way to go, but there's only a small group of these gamers who will be able to go online without problems. Not everyone realizes they'll need to add over $100 more to setup a network first. On top on that, not everyone knows how to setup a network. And god forbid you try to market to casual gamers.
MS and Sony better come out with some sort of easy router, that the average joe blow an setup. Otherwise, they will be hurting.