Connecting Blu-ray player to Internet

[CoogarXR]

Unless he has one of the old-timey cable modems that don't have a built-in router. Maybe just give us the model number of the box (the box the cable comes into, and your PC connects to).

[Chip Chester]

Or, if he only has one ethernet drop in the vicinity, he could use a ethernet switch to provide additional connectivity without running another wire from wherever the cable modem/router is to the DVD player's vicinity. Should cost about $15.

Chip

[Jeffhs]

CoogarXR:

I don't know anything about the box that connects my computer to the Internet or whether it has a router or not, much less how old it is. It is made by a company called Scientific Atlanta. I don't know and cannot find the model number. Even if I could find the number (it must be somewhere on the box), my eyesight is bad and I cannot read the tiny print on the box. For what it is worth, the box has six lights on it, one that blinks when the Internet connection is working and one, according to the cable company, that doesn't light at all, although the box itself still works. The other four are for functions I know nothing about at this time.

Chip Chester:

There is only one Internet connection here; as I said in my last post, the line is split between the computer and my telephone. I never heard of such a thing as an ethernet switch, and even if I knew what it was, I don't know where I would get one. I live in a very small town (no electronics or computer stores here anymore) and I don't drive, so I have no access to stores such as Radio Shack, et al. unless I order things online.


The foregoing is all the information I can provide, as I know next to nothing about how broadband Internet works, let alone cable/online service split among three devices (television, telephone and computer).