Going wireless ive banned me mother from me pc so shes after a lappy if she goes to pc world and asks they'll take her to the cleaners with all the norton shit and there after sales service patter. So what do i need to buy bar the lappy to get sorted??? ta
as topper says, a router and a PMCCIA card. best router (least hassle) one to get is probs a linksys. But don't get one from PC world, it'll set you back £80, whereas morgan on the net have em for £35 (and no there isn't anything wrong with it ) If you're going to get anything from PC world, just buy the laptop adapter there, they're pretty much the same price everywhere (around the £20 mark). The belkin cards are alright, so are the linksys ones, not had any bother with either.
I have had 2 linksys routers and they are pan-am!! They keep cutting out and the signal strength has been poor!
It's not just about your router, your adapter might be gash, or you might have you router positioned in the wrong place. I've installed 6 linksys routers for people now (plus I use one myself) and I've not had any complaints. Check where your router is positioned, it should be away from any sources of electrical interference (fridges, microwaves etc), and away from any cordless handsets. It shouldn't be on the floor either (the higher up it is the better the signal will be). Just out of curiosity what adapter are you using?
What do you mean adaptor? Is this what connects the router from the modem? If it is its just the ethernet one that came with the router. I have returned the router to the shop now, got sick of it as it only delivered 54Mbps MAX!!, compared to 100 when i connect direct. I was looking at the new netgear ones, they rekon to deliver 160mbps for£79?? Are they any good? they are white with a blue sort of circular light on the top.
Yeah thats the adapter. Was it inside the PC or a USB jobbie? yeah, alex is right here. Even with a beefed up adsl line you're unlikely to have above 8mbps tops unless you're on bulldog. 54mbps is just under 6 times faster than this, and most of the time you're not going to be using all of this amount unless you're copying stuff between computers on a regular basis. Most conventional wired networks use 100mbps - any wireless network using more than that at the moment is overkill. The 108mbps ones seem fine, but I'd hold out on the netgear ones till an open standard becomes available, otherwise you have to use netgear adapters in your network setup as well.
