Introduction

Cable

What is Cable?

Cable Internet access is often supplied by utilising a cable television infrastructure. As a result, it is often packaged with cable television and phone services.

Cable Connection Details

The following details are required to gain Cable Internet Access:

Automatically get my Connection Details

This option should be ticked if your Cable Provider automatically assigns you an IP Address when you connect to the Internet. This is the most common way to connect to a Cable Internet service

IP Address

This is the address that your cable provider assigns to you so you can be identified and connect to their servers to access the Internet.

Subnet Mask

In general computer networking, this is used to divide networks. In the majority of networks, this should be set to 255.255.255.0.

Gateway

This is the IP Address of the cable provider's server that you wish to connect to

DNS

These are the DNS servers that will allow you to use domain names to browse the web.