Wireless router

[nyck]

My mum is have NTL broadband installed soon.
The connect will be in the front room where the main PC will be, but my brother wants to connect with his laptop in the other room.I've had a look on E-bay they range from £35 up.I'm not sure which one to go for.It doesn't have to be anying special .
any help or links on e-bay etc

thanks nyck

[Tezcatlipoca]

There's been a few wireless threads recently!


Have a look at this one:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=16106


As well as a router, you would need some sort of wireless adapter for the laptop. You can either get a card one, or a USB one.


This post in the thread above has links for a Wireless-G router, plus Wireless-G cards: http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...68&postcount=3

You can also get routers & cards which use the cheaper (but slower) Wireless-B standard:

e.g. Wireless-B router - Linksys BEFW11S4



Here's another wireless thread we've had recently: http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=16242



Also have a read of this once you've "gone wireless" - http://www.cableforum.co.uk/kb/78/ho...reless-network

(wireless security is *very* important)

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[nyck]

would this be ok

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...115615521&rd=1

thanks nyck

[Tezcatlipoca]

He doesn't say which model it is, just "Linksys Wireless-G router". But I assume it's therefore a Linksys WRT54G, which would be perfectly fine.

[nyck]

Thanks for the reply

If they got a wireless-B router would it really make a difference compared to wireless-G. as they are only used to 56K dial up at the moment
If you point out any others on e-bay
just post

thanks nyck

[Tezcatlipoca]

Wireless-B will be fine if all the router will really be used for is sharing the net connection (as Wireless-B is 11Mbps, whereas ntl cable BB's top speed is 1.5Mbps).

If you want to transfer files across the network, though, "G" will be better as it's 54Mbps.


A good Wireless-B router is the Linksys BEFW11S4 - £32.62 at Amazon

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by nyck

would this be ok

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...115615521&rd=1

thanks nyck

Looks OK, but check the prices off ebay
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=45023
£49.98 for the router
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=45024
b/g PCMICA card £31.72
Plus shipping, but thats a total of £82, which is £40 below the reserve not met price of that auction.

Originally Posted by nyck

Thanks for the reply

If they got a wireless-B router would it really make a difference compared to wireless-G. as they are only used to 56K dial up at the moment
If you point out any others on e-bay
just post

thanks nyck

Once you have a network you will find that you start file and printer sharing across it, while you will not notice the 11(b) to 54mb(g) speed increase on web use, printing, file saving, streaming MP3 will all be faster on g.

Now my laptops card is g, my network will hapily use the laptop iTunes to control the iTunes database on the desktop which is wired to the server (where the MP4 files are) which then streams this wirelessly back to the Apple Airport plugged into the hi-fi, and at the same time browse the net, save files, download images from the camera (all being done on the laptop).

It is a wonderfully enabling technology.

The Linksys router is also great to poke around with if that floats your boat, it has a fairly powerfull RISC processor in there and you can put different software on the flash memory, have a Google on the subject.