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Loyal Freddie
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- Dec 22, 2003
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I'm about to move house and i'm after some advice as to what to do in relation to connecting my computer to the internet in the new place. My current setup is straightforward. BT adsl internet. BT Voyager 205 adsl router plugged into the phone line and then the pc plugged into the router via ethernet.
Basically in the current house the pc is in one of the spare bedrooms. This bedroom has a phone line in it thats been ran there from the line downstairs via the outside(i think anyway!). In the new house theres only one phone line point. This is by the stairs so is no good for the pc. I'm therefore looking at putting the pc in the utility room at the rear of the new house. Will i be better off:
1)Getting a line ran to the back of the house? I don't want to run anything from the master internally cos theres no carpets downstairs.
2)Getting a wireless router and plugging it in at the only phone point at the front of the house?
I don't really have any idea of how good wireless is and if it would be worth it at all since i just have the one pc. Indeed i have no clue how expensive it would be for a decent wireless router plus whatever i need to plug into the pc to make it work.
Yes i know i'm a clueless geordie but like Homer Simpson everytime i think of something new it pushes something old out my head.
Basically in the current house the pc is in one of the spare bedrooms. This bedroom has a phone line in it thats been ran there from the line downstairs via the outside(i think anyway!). In the new house theres only one phone line point. This is by the stairs so is no good for the pc. I'm therefore looking at putting the pc in the utility room at the rear of the new house. Will i be better off:
1)Getting a line ran to the back of the house? I don't want to run anything from the master internally cos theres no carpets downstairs.
2)Getting a wireless router and plugging it in at the only phone point at the front of the house?
I don't really have any idea of how good wireless is and if it would be worth it at all since i just have the one pc. Indeed i have no clue how expensive it would be for a decent wireless router plus whatever i need to plug into the pc to make it work.
Yes i know i'm a clueless geordie but like Homer Simpson everytime i think of something new it pushes something old out my head.