Jim Galbally

ok, im in the market for one, an all in 1 jobbie... ADSL in and 802.11g and ethernet out.

at the moment i'm tempted to buy a belkin.

my GF's dad uses a netgear, and it's shit and unreliable.

ive also heard bad things about linksys and dlink ones.

im not after anything too special, not going cisco or anything like that but do want something that WORKS :P

will have desktop PC connected via RJ45 and laptop connected via wireless. i also want the PC to be able to talk to the laptop, so the thing needs to act as a bridged switch aswell (i think most do)

Stu.H

i use a netgear, although its not an adsl connection i have

does seem unreliable tho

get an asda smart price one!

rs_daz

We got a belkin tis very good and never seems to drop...

Max

my dad has a belkin one i but not sure on the model. Will have a check when I go round there at some time. Does seem to work fairly well

He has 1pc and 2 laptops connected via wireless and one pc on CAT5 RJ45 cable and they can all talk to eachother fine

ste_gt

Keep away from netgear, there cheap tat.

Jim Galbally

ste, theyve got a good name in wired products... but the stories ive heard about the wireless stuff...

morto

hi, belkin or the boys 4 quality

andzz

Phil

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For wireless I have used 2 with ADSL, a Netgear 802.11g and a Draytek (sp?) 802.11b. Used the Draytek first then upgraded to the Netgear for the speed increase.

Netgear was shit and now in the cupboard somewhere and the Draytek is back on - works faultlessly. Netgear one crashed all the time and neevr managed to get it running properly really. I'm quite clever with this stuff and despite spending a few days fiddling I couldn't figure out what was making it freeze/drop connections etc.

Jim Galbally

phil, my GF's dad has same problem, constantly drops the wireless conenction despite everyhting showing 100% ok. also it turns off the wired connection when there's no wireless stuff in range too! wierd!

he knows what hes doing with it too, he been in the IT business since they used to run around big rooms changin those lightbulb looking things

Patto

i use a belkin wireless so my old man can use my broadband weve never had any bother ( touch wood ) not sure on the others as ive had no experiance but he seems happy with the speeds he gets.. just out of intrest i have a 2MB connection any idea wot speed hell be getting through the router..

CheeRS
Craig

Jim Galbally

he'll be getting the max... ie 2mb

802.11g (what most use) is 54mb so the bottlenck is still in the internet connection.

kjc300

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I bought a BT Voyager pack from PC World for a ton!! It came with wireless router, desktop wireless card, and a pcmiia (or whatever it is!!) card for a laptop!! Never had any probs with it!! Got the main PC attached by network cable to router, and used my laptop with card all round the house!!!

RANJ

givng sum pc`s static ip addres helps in connection dropping roblems, we had this when we rolled out 200 of the fookers

Jim Galbally

ranj, ill probably go for static anyway, only got 2 machines to configure so wont be all that hard

Dead and Gone

to be honest it's not all down to the netgear wireless for it falling off... the default frequence that the netgear ships with can sadly conflict with cordless phones/micro waves so you will get signal drop outs for no reason... easy to fix...

Jim, don't forget that the 54mb connection of the wireless network is if your sat on top of it the further away you go the slower the connection will be, but your internet connection will nearlly always be the slow point

Patto

thats good to know then....the router is 2.4GHZ-8022.11g...

CheeRS
Craig

Phil

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Never thought about frequency interference, but the router is next to the cordless phone base station!

Surely all 802.11x products run on the same frequency though? Otherwise my Belkin adaptors in the PCs wouldn't see the Netgear router!

Dead and Gone

yep... get this I did and install once in a school during half term and all rooms had perfect signal strength so install complete all done... kids came back in and one room kept loosing all signal so I got called back and did some tests... when someone in the room turned on a side light it would kill the signal dead, apparently the school had a sparky in doing some electrical work and he hadn't shielded the wiring so it was coursing bad problems, you could turn the lights off and all was well lol

all cordless phones operate on the same frequency range as G wireless... there will be a new standard out soon for wireless so that only wireless devices work on there own range! should help!

Rhys

I got Belkin card and cant fault it!!!!! 100% reliable and easy to install, must have taking me less than 5 mins to intall it and that for someone whos crap wioth computers

Adam_BlackRS

I've got this...

http://www.netgear.co.uk/extra/h_wir...ter_dg834g.php

Only problems i have with it was when i upgraded the software version on it.... kept resetting itself. Kept it on the std software version now.... don't have any problems

saff_cossie

I use a D Link DSL G604T router which does the job well enough

St3V3_C

I use linksys router (not ADSL) with a belkin pcmcia - seems fine after I realised my laptop is screwed

Just make sure you reset everything , modem, router, pc, to make it all work

Joris_FRST

I've got a seperate 3com router and 2 3com access points,
only installed it last week, so some problems still, (mainly due to me forcing it onto a channel ) If you let them choose the channel they'll take the one with least interference.

WDS function is cool, I got a wired office connected wirelessly to my living room.
so the 2 acces points are acting as acces point AND wireless bridges AND wireless repeaters.

It does 802.11 a / b / g.
they do look cool too, and all units are stackable

tonyk

I am on ntl so my router dont have the modem built in. I run a netgear 614 54g router with 2 pc`s in my study running off it on rj45 and also a laptop connecting at various times wireless. It has a pcmcia us robotics 22mbs card in it.

I get the odd drop out now and again on the laptop but it is 5 walled rooms away. I upgraded the firmware on the router and as ranj said assigned each machine an ip and dont have much bother really.

Also just noticed somebody said about cordless phones, one sits less than 3 feet away from the router.

SapphyMike

i use a dlink dsl 604+ airlink..

its an 802.11b so its a slow one but seeing as how i only have 750k adsl, it matters not... and by the time 10mb + adsl comes out here in my city, i doubt i'll be living in this country LOL

It works fine - have very few problems with it.

frog

Had both belkin and netgear access points (no DSL), they died shortly after purchase (in a matter of weeks).

Have a linksys all in one now (wireless + ADSL), it has survived so far and seems to have better range than any other I've had

rsnissan

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I Have the Dlink Wireless and cant fault it wireless round the house and all four of the ethernets ports hardwired to sockets round the house and supplying 2 desktops everything can see everything else and the PS2 is pluged in as well.

No problems with everything at once and the wireless has never needed resetting once