Wireless Interwebernet!!11

[Cyfr]

Right erm so, I want wireless internet! But i'm hopfully going to make more sence than Mut68 when he asked

Right, i'm moving house and rather than pulling up all the floor boards and buying new network cables (and I can use my pda around the house), i'm going to get a wireless router. Now this is where you guys come in

I'm not entirly sure how much a 'good' one would be, i'm willing to spend around £100 I guess, or extra if a good one is just over that. I'll be using the pc for gaming mostly, so need low pings, thanks in advance!

ps: My internet connection will most likely be adsl so it would be nice to have an inbuilt adsl modem.. oh and I need some form of security on the router, thanks!

 

[NaveT]

I have the Netgear DG834G which is fantastic. The new versions - NETGEAR DG834GT 108Mbps ADSL Wireless Router is faster though.

Broadbandbuyer.co.uk do them for around 100 and throw in a wireless network card (pcmia or usb) as well.

It should cover everything you need.

Check out http://www.adslguide.org.uk/reviews/ for loads of uk based reviews on adsl routers.

 

[Cyfr]

Thanks Arf didn't realise it would cost so much
£108 for the DG834GT then £41x3 cards

I'll think about it

 

[~Yuckfou~]

Netgear here too, works just fine, easy to set up.

 

[Ardrias]

I have a DG834G (the 54mpbs one) and with my current ISP it's kinda gay, as mentioned in some other thread. The DG834GT apparently has the same issues, random disconnects and lockups, depending on which DSLAMs your ISP is using in the telestations.

You might have to fiddle around with different versions of firmware, until Netgear releases the long awaited 1.06 (which they've been working on since... oh... may 2004 or so...)

Other than that, it's fine! Oh, mine also hangs if I for some reason ever reach cap speed . Download at 800kb/s and it dies after about 10 seconds, less speed and it's fine. Funny stuff.

 

[`mongoose]

that's exactly what my netgear cable wireless router does.

It worked fine for 6 months and then I got oscillating connections on both wifi and lan ports......

I now run a linksys wireless cable router and that's very nice indeed.

I wouldn't touch netgear with a big stick as a result of my problems with their gear.

As regards cost, most wireless routers incoporate a mini switch with 4 lan ports..... I would stick the router close to your main pc and just hook up to it via cable then you only need to get two wifi cards.

M

 

[Cyfr]

Yeah was thinking about that last night. Hopefully theres a telephone line in my room then I can connect my two pc's via cable and only need one wifi card ...

 

[`mongoose]

Yeah was thinking about that last night. Hopefully theres a telephone line in my room then I can connect my two pc's via cable and only need one wifi card ...

http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductsList.asp?Category=31&SubCat=net-wlg&Name=&Page=1&SortBy=2

Linksys Wireless Broadband router - £60 incl vat. That's a bit of a deal imo

with wifi card you could be connected for under £100......

tis only 54g tho. I stayed away from the 108mbps cos it's not ratified yet and you often get strange hardware glitches unless you buy card and router from the same manufacturer..

M

 

[GDW]

No problems with Netgear here

 

[`mongoose]

No problems with Netgear here

I prolly had the two shit bits of kit they made out of a batch then

I had a wireless card that crashed xp after it was installed (worked fine then after reboot pc would just hang)

and the wireless router that did all that funky connection gone, connection back, connection gone, connection back shizz :/

M

 

[Ardrias]

I'd go with Linksys if the bastards would have a combined modem/router, but they dont. Unless I'm a total asshat, of course.

 

[`mongoose]

http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductInfoComm.asp?ID=10665

that looks like an adsl version of the linksys cable router to me...

Tbh I am so fed up with ntl in my area that I am very tempted to switch my internet to adsl as well now.....

M

 

[Cyfr]

I got the linksys one and it seems to work great, however the battery on my laptop has erm, melted.. but it works without battery so i'm going to use wireless with that after I format