I have a 2WIRE Home Portal phoneline router currently serving as the 
DSL modem for my PC. Can I continue to use it as the DSL modem for a 
wireless network?

Sometime in 2002, I think, I bought a 2Wire Home Portal Phoneline 
network system from SBC (my dsl provider).  The router is connected 
to dsl, the ethernet card in my PC, and the voice line for the phone. 
I was never able to get the phoneline network to work. [2Wire 
referred me to SBC. SBC techs said "we do phones, not networks" and I 
eventually gave up.]

The 2Wire router has been functioning fine for the last 4 years, 
AFAIK, as a dsl modem. I've bought a Linksys "Wireless-G Broadband 
router, model WRT54GX2" with the intention of setting up a wireless 
WinXP network: this WinXP desktop and 2 laptops, one running WinXP 
and the other WinXP Media Edition.

I assume (hope) I can continue to use the 2Wire router as a dsl modem 
with the Linksys router. Any cautions before I dismantle my 
connection to the Internet? Any issues I haven't considered?

Thanks.

Larry

Lawrence T. Gurley
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