Broadband Yipee!

tred

Hi all,
Enabled last wednesday. ORdered broadband from Eircom on thursday and received my wireless router today. Now is taht quick or what!. I am a waiting for a catch, especially with Eircom. Anyway, my laptop is wireless enabled, so i should be able to get going on that today, however, I was holding out on enabling the PC. Eircom sell a USB wireless device. What would you guys recommened. Has anyone here gotten the Eircom wireless router and used it against another wirless card for the PC?. Any recommendations. Its probably being logged here allready, but i cant search!!!

Cheers

CSSource God

Is this an advert for Eircom? Haha only joking. Seriously though, Eircom are crap!:mad: Your'e one of the few lucky ones i applied for weeks with no luck so i finally gave up!:(

The Real B-man

if your laptop has a wireless card you should be ok regardless if it wireless B or G Eircom router does both

Archytas

Yeah I play around wit wireless in my house and work. The netopia is a pretty good piece of kit as long as it has up to date firmware, but seen as you got it the other day, it does.

Lots of people recommend that all your networking kit come from the same manufacturer.. i.e. try and get the netopia usb adapter. But in my experience waht ever you have should be good. The only trouble I've ever had was with some linksys cards. but got around those problems. SMC are pretty good and 3com. Netgear are pretty good too.

So even if your kit is a mish mash you shouldn't really have any problems... and yeah I think eircom sell usb wireless adapters... but buy from someone else please.... I dont mind eircom, but buy computer kit from a real supplier!!

Stephen

If your PC is near the eircom router, save your money and just run an ethernet cable to it.

Archytas

Stephen wrote:

If your PC is near the eircom router, save your money and just run an ethernet cable to it.

Yeah I should have said that....

tred

Stephen wrote:

If your PC is near the eircom router, save your money and just run an ethernet cable to it.

Do you lose any performance between wireless and direct connection via Ethernet connection. ?


And i aint praising Eircom. I cant believe it actually. I was wondering would i get it before xmas at all. Ill stick wiht them for 6 months,(contract) then ill look around.

Khannie

tred wrote:

Do you lose any performance between wireless and direct connection via Ethernet connection. ?

You shouldn't, but you might.

If you have the option of ethernet, then you should just use it and save yourself the time / hassle / money.

If you do decide to use ethernet, don't forget to lock down the wireless side of things.