First of all
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Originally Posted by andygrif
I bought the Linksys WRTG54G - works perfectly, and you can set it so you have either B only mode (like your Centrino), G only mode or a mixture of B&G, so you're sort of future-proofing yourself a little.
Simple to set up, the G was cheaper than the B from Amazon when I bought it, and the coverage seems pretty good too even in my old house with big thick walls, I can still get almost full signal downstairs, with the router upstairs.
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Just got one of these myself - cheap, and reliable (I have had a linksys router for a couple of years with no problems - just got this as an all in one and to allow for future "G" devices
If you want to chare your BB you will can either buy a router (and you might as well get a wireless one as you already have wireless cards), or you can use Internet connection sharing (ICS) which is a git to set up, and means that one PC has to be on for any others to connect...
There are a number of wireless routers out there - and all have their merits, I use linksys (owned by Cisco
) but others use netgear, belkin and D-link (to name a few) with similar ease.
If you have a CM then all you need to do is :
power off CM, attach to router, power on CM, power on router (once CM is connected).
the linksys stuff works pretty much out of the box..
with a STB you will need to do a bit more (I can post more detail if needs be), but again it should be pretty painless (fatal last words
)
HTH