Wirelessness

Nukem

Just got Bband from BT today and its class only prob is my comp is upstairs and my dads one is downsatirs and guess what he dont want 50 ft of cable been trawled through the house :mad:

What about a wirless setup. Havent a clue about it anyone point me in the right direction please.Will really need it as my Sister is gettin a comp for X-mas as well so id say 3comps in the house

Michael Collins

Is your broadband from EsatBT? Is it ADSL?

Probably the easiest way (assuming their both running XP) is to get two Wireless NICs, set them to Ad-Hoc mode, put one in the PC upstairs, one in the PC downstairs, enable Internet Connection Sharing on the one with the Broadband connection and set the other one to use that computer as it's default gateway. The disadvantage here is that the PC with the internet connect has to be turned on for the other PC to have connection

Otherwise you'll need a Wireless Router/Gateway. You can get all in one solutions these days and they're cheap enough - Wireless ADSL Modem Router Gateways with Firewalls! This way each PC can have its own independent connection to the internet.

Mutant_Fruit

The easiest thing would be to get a good Wireless router. Its a HELLUVA lot easier to setup and use than software sharing, trust me.

Optikus

Michael Collins wrote:

Is your broadband from EsatBT? Is it ADSL?

Probably the easiest way (assuming their both running XP) is to get two Wireless NICs, set them to Ad-Hoc mode, put one in the PC upstairs, one in the PC downstairs, enable Internet Connection Sharing on the one with the Broadband connection and set the other one to use that computer as it's default gateway. The disadvantage here is that the PC with the internet connect has to be turned on for the other PC to have connection

Otherwise you'll need a Wireless Router/Gateway. You can get all in one solutions these days and they're cheap enough - Wireless ADSL Modem Router Gateways with Firewalls! This way each PC can have its own independent connection to the internet.

I'd also recommend getting the wireless router.

Nukem

Cool :cool: any advice on the type and make. Anyone in particular good or bad. And where do i buy?any recommmendations would be class

logistic

I just got this last week Netgear mr814 and have it connected to my prestige600 modem from bt. Bought it from ebay worked out about 50E incl delivery.

Dingatron

I'm happy with my Belkin one. Firewall with WEP, SSID broadcast ON/OFF, MAC address filtering and load of other stuff. It's a 802.11b from Harvey Norman of all places but it was €60 so can't argue with it.

Civilian_Target

I have a Linksys WAG54G that seems to work fine. Its a touch expensive, but it is a wired/wireless hub, and its compatible with that new high-speed standard thingumy.

aaf

I'll 2nd the Linksys range of equipment as I just bought the WRT54G Wireless Router last week and set it up over the weekend. Working like a charm now, Also bought a Linksys Wireless Notebook Adapter WPC54G for the laptop but I need to do some upgrading on the laptop for it to work. Linksys are a Cisco company who are regarded as probably the top dogs in networking equipment. Haven't seen a bad word said about Linksys equipment yet

Andrew Fotzpatr

another vote for linkys