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question about wireless network for broadband

  • 18-04-2005 01:08PM
    #1
    jeff lebowski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 350 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I just ordered eircom plus broadband and the netopia wi-fi router and stuff got sent out last week.

    In my house, we have 3 PC's. I have a standard desktop and my 2 housemates have laptops with wireless connectivity.

    What I was wondering was this: can I connect my desktop PC to broadband and still let the 2 laptops use it as well? The desktop doesn't have any wirless connectivity though.

    Cheers


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  • #2
    Shane O' Malley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭Shane O' Malley


    Yes you can.

    You can have as many as 4 computers wired to the modem/router and an almost unlimited number of computers using the wireless connection.

    Infact you need to have a computer wired to the router in order to configure it after which you can disconnect it if needed.

    Only thing is that i believe the wireless routers only come with ethernet connections and not USB (I may be wrong but that is the way mine came) so you will need a network card.

    Hope this helps.


  • #3
    jeff lebowski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 350 ✭✭jeff lebowski


    cheers, thats the info I was looking for.

    I already have an ethernet card in my PC so I should be fine.

    Do you know if it has much of an effect on speed (or pings in playing games) if a few people are connected at once?


  • #4
    JNive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭JNive


    Multiple people connected has no effect, unless of course they are actually using some of the bandwidth.

    In general, web-browsing shouldnt effect your game performance, since we-browsing is composed of short spikes in download, and with ADSL, there is plenty of download.

    for gaming you would want at least 25kbytes/sec down and 8kbytes/sec up available to your computer for consistent, un-interupted gaming, in my experience


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