wireless router/modem are they as shite and unreliable as im led to believe? i need a new modem/router and was considering one to save on some clutter, heard linksys and belkin are meant to be good, anyone seen any cheap decent ones knocking about
mines really reliable, only drops signal, once every few weeks maybe less. Most wireless routers have a firewall, guess you could class that as a hardware firewall. I have a belkin router. Think the reliabilty can be affected by how far away from the hub you are.
whats the model or yours andy? i will need a decent network card too, heard belkin are ok for these aswell. the modem/router will be on the next floor down and a bit to the back so were talking about 7 metres through a brick wall and floor
I used to have a linksys BEFSWsomethingorother (technical term alert) which was a 54mbps (although I only had 11mbps centrino on my laptop It was chuffing excellent - my mam and dad live in a large victorian house that has really thick brick walls throughout, The PC was at the front of the house downstairs, and I could use it about 15-20 metres away, even in the back yard outside with full signal strength. It was pretty easy to set up on both sides too, and because I had a couple of problems setting up my laptop to find it, the linksys team I contacted on the web chat thing were really helpful and sorted it all out for me. You can't really go wrong with either belkin or linksys really, both well known reliable makes so good luck
why thank you, i am trying :computer: for my next trick I will be installing additional RAM, so geeks be on standby
