carnage1985
12-06-2005, 20:08
Firstly sorry if this is in the wrong forum, I did have a look around and this is to with my NTL Broadband connection so I figured we'd go here. Secondly I'm new so be gentle with me.
I have been looking at the NTL wireless bundle for £99.99 and I'm confused. I work for an ADSL company so I'm thrown right off with the concept of cable. I currently use the silver flat NTL cable modem. What I want is to setup a wireless network, between my PC running on 98se (the shame) and my laptop running on XP. I would like both to be wireless but am absolutely puzzled on which router to go with. I have a few questions:
i) Do I need to use a router specific to NTL or will any cable modem router work?
ii) How does the router connect with the cable modem? And to the PC, as this is only USB no ehternet, unlike the laptop which has both. The laptop also has a wireless card inside so I'm thinking I wouldn't need to buy a card for this am I right?
iii) What would you recommend, I am considering the NTL - package but to be honest it's ugly, I'm used to working with pretty shiny small routers (not the technical term I'm sure) What makes, models etc . . .
If you could give me any support I'd really appreciate it, like I say I have no clue when it comes to Cable. Cheers in advance.
:)
I have been looking at the NTL wireless bundle for £99.99 and I'm confused. I work for an ADSL company so I'm thrown right off with the concept of cable. I currently use the silver flat NTL cable modem. What I want is to setup a wireless network, between my PC running on 98se (the shame) and my laptop running on XP. I would like both to be wireless but am absolutely puzzled on which router to go with. I have a few questions:
i) Do I need to use a router specific to NTL or will any cable modem router work?
ii) How does the router connect with the cable modem? And to the PC, as this is only USB no ehternet, unlike the laptop which has both. The laptop also has a wireless card inside so I'm thinking I wouldn't need to buy a card for this am I right?
iii) What would you recommend, I am considering the NTL - package but to be honest it's ugly, I'm used to working with pretty shiny small routers (not the technical term I'm sure) What makes, models etc . . .
If you could give me any support I'd really appreciate it, like I say I have no clue when it comes to Cable. Cheers in advance.
:)