OT - Home networking help

[Trev]

Re:Home networking help

Wimmy I have sitecom wireless router from maplin
up in the bedroom
My sons play games over the net with no problems
Trev

 

[Roberto]

Re: Re:Home networking help

Well, I don't know about Tom and Ian, but all I can say is I have been running a wireless 802.11g network at home for the last 6 months or so. I use a Draytek 2600VGi wireless ADSL router ( http://www.draytek.co.uk ) and I get 54MBPS all over my house on my laptop, even in the back garden. The router is located downstairs in the dining room and my sons PC upstairs gets 54MBPS all the time too. I also have the PS2 hooked up to it and get full bandwidth there. All this through walls (and I live in RAF housing which was designed by the same guy who designed nuclear shelters !! LOL)

(That was a joke BTW, before anyone tries to get clever, but these walls are solid !)

It was a piece of **** to set up and the benefits are fantastic.

I've never looked back, and the missus loves the cable free environment

Drop me a line Wimmy, if you need any further help

Rob

 

[Craig]

Re: Re:Home networking help

Ian

If i remember right Packard Bell were bringing out/Brung out PC versions of that Apple plug in network.

Could be worth looking at Wimmy

 

[Craig]

Re: Re:Home networking help

yeah just checked their 50quid from PC World.

PACKARD BELL WIRED NETWORKING
Product Code - 874356

 

[Tom]

Re: Re:Home networking help

Sounds like you got lucky

I've got 11g at home and its awful (I think nextdoor also have 11g which won't help), we tried it at work too and it worked until we fired up our 2.4GHz kit at which point it failed.

 

[Roberto]

Re: Re:Home networking help

Don't think luck has much to do with it. I know the router is not a typical home router. It's enterprise class and maybe has a bit more oomph, but I got it for £50 new (worth £350, long story) and I've never had a simpler hardware installation in all my years in IT. I was dreading the fiasco we had when we first got our Cisco routers at a previous job, and all the settings you had to make.



Rob

 

[Tom]

Re: Re:Home networking help

Now thats cheating

 

[cynic-al]

Anonymous

He connects the router he has and uses for broadband now and the two pc's into a cheap and nasty switch depending on the hardware he has, i.e. if it's RJ-45 not USB.

Sorry if i didn't make that clear

 

[Wimmy]

Re: Re:Home networking help

Well, picked up a d-link wired one today for £28.
Not interested in both PC's talking to each other as one is for work use and the other for me and will have both of them on together.
Plugged in and both up and running nicely. Work one through a VPN and nothing needed changing or setting! Piece of ****.
I will look at the manual tho later to check firewall settings etc but all seemed sweet