Can I use my LAN cable without a router?

I got my DSL line connected today, so I theoretically have internet, but my router is still stuck in the mail. Can I just plug my LAN cable into it and connect it to my PC and use it that way?

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Commodore64
11 months ago

No, you need a modem.

This translates the telephone line signals into digital data that the PC can then use directly (e.g. in a USB modem) or via network (modem with LAN connection).

In order to be able to use more than one PC, you need a router which, in a simplified manner, distributes the internet connection to several PCs.

A so-called “DSL router” then also has the necessary DSL modem installed. There are also WAN routers that do not have a modem and you have to connect one or hang on a DSL router.

ntechde
11 months ago

No, I can’t. DSL and Ethernet use the same plug shape but the cables are different and the electrical protocol is also another. The router converts the DSL signals into Ethernet or WLAN. It is a bit misleading through the RJ45 plug

There is an exception: for a glass fiber cable “can” function. (Yes, really, I tried it. Tricky, but possible) But without routers, your computer is naked and unprotected on the Internet. This is not very desirable either.

Better wait for the router!

Commodore64
11 months ago
Reply to  ntechde

In a fiber optic cable “can” function

Right, because a glass fiber cable is nothing but a “Fancy LAN cable”.

Whether you’re going to a modem via PPPoe, it’s the same for the PC.

But without router, your computer is naked and unprotected on the Internet

Just as if you had a modem connected. The PC then needs its own firewall. And the PC can also “play” routers. So you did this before there were cost-effective routers, so up to the initial time of DSL.

Nowadays you have a router with built-in modem as a standard. A pure modem is even more expensive because rarely needed (only makes sense in the server area).

wrglbrmpft
11 months ago

The router is only a multi-function bug that is disguised as decoration, which records everything that happens in the apartment. Must be known;-)

Of course it’s not. All right. Once the router is there and the DSL is unlocked, you can start. Or you’ll ask the neighbor if you can use his Wi-Fi as long as you can.

Valentin1720653
11 months ago
Reply to  Red1310

There is something “healthy human understanding” or “General education”.

Someone can’t think 2cm far, there’s sarcasm already attached.

manifest001
11 months ago

No, it’s not possible.

Stefan522
11 months ago

You can plug in the cable, but it doesn’t work.

Hannes178
11 months ago

Theoretically yes, Practically no

Venus345
11 months ago
Reply to  Red1310

otherwise your router does not need, the router is overhauled with us, because the Fritz-box has kept in motion

Hafnafir
11 months ago

Try it, you can’t break it. Many years ago, I used to…

Hafnafir
11 months ago
Reply to  Red1310

I’ve always wondered

01AndiPlayz
11 months ago

No.

kuestenflueger
11 months ago

that’s how it’s switched!