Home Networking Advice Needed

I've seen a lot of these in the newsgroup, so apologies in advance if
I'm asking questions that are being answered every week.

I'm looking to setup a home network, and will probably be going
wireless. I use NTL broadband, and currently the PC goes straight into
the cable box via RJ45, all nice and straight forward. Now I'm moving my
computer upstairs so the logical solution would be a wireless DHCP
router downstairs and a PCI card for the PC upstairs; however I like to
be as flexible as possible, so I was thinking something like the
wireless DHCP router downstairs (with a couple of 10/100 sockets I can
plug the laptop and XBox into) and some kind of wireless hub / router
upstairs, again with 4 10/100 - I can then plug my PC in to this, but it
gives me expansion possibilities such as transfering data from clients, etc.

So my main question is, how difficult is this? A straight DHCP router ->
PCI card setup sounds very simple, but how do you go about setting up
DHCP router -> router? Any equipment recommendations would be
appreciated, I don't think the wireless speed matters much 11mbps should
be ample.

And I best ask - how secure would all this be? I do a lot of movie
editing at home so that's pretty critical. I'd prefer to go wireless as
getting RJ45 from downstairs to upstairs would be quite a task.

Thanks in advance,

Matt
www.chainsaw-films.com

Chainsaw said:
> I've seen a lot of these in the newsgroup, so apologies in advance if I'm
> asking questions that are being answered every week.
>
> I'm looking to setup a home network, and will probably be going wireless. I
> use NTL broadband, and currently the PC goes straight into the cable box via
> RJ45, all nice and straight forward. Now I'm moving my computer upstairs so
> the logical solution would be a wireless DHCP router downstairs and a PCI
> card for the PC upstairs; however I like to be as flexible as possible, so I
> was thinking something like the wireless DHCP router downstairs (with a
> couple of 10/100 sockets I can plug the laptop and XBox into) and some kind
> of wireless hub / router upstairs, again with 4 10/100 - I can then plug my
> PC in to this, but it gives me expansion possibilities such as transfering
> data from clients, etc.
>
> So my main question is, how difficult is this? A straight DHCP router -> PCI
> card setup sounds very simple, but how do you go about setting up DHCP router
> -> router? Any equipment recommendations would be appreciated, I don't think
> the wireless speed matters much 11mbps should be ample.
>
> And I best ask - how secure would all this be? I do a lot of movie editing at
> home so that's pretty critical. I'd prefer to go wireless as getting RJ45
> from downstairs to upstairs would be quite a task.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Matt
> www.chainsaw-films.com

Most of the wirwless routers will work (using DHCP) right out of the
box - and the direction aren't too bad. Security on the other hand -
you'll have to set up; but again the direction will help you along.

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news.comcast.giganews.com wrote:
> Chainsaw said:
>
>> I've seen a lot of these in the newsgroup, so apologies in advance if
>> I'm asking questions that are being answered every week.
>>
>> I'm looking to setup a home network, and will probably be going
>> wireless. I use NTL broadband, and currently the PC goes straight into
>> the cable box via RJ45, all nice and straight forward. Now I'm moving
>> my computer upstairs so the logical solution would be a wireless DHCP
>> router downstairs and a PCI card for the PC upstairs; however I like
>> to be as flexible as possible, so I was thinking something like the
>> wireless DHCP router downstairs (with a couple of 10/100 sockets I can
>> plug the laptop and XBox into) and some kind of wireless hub / router
>> upstairs, again with 4 10/100 - I can then plug my PC in to this, but
>> it gives me expansion possibilities such as transfering data from
>> clients, etc.
>>
>> So my main question is, how difficult is this? A straight DHCP router
>> -> PCI card setup sounds very simple, but how do you go about setting
>> up DHCP router -> router? Any equipment recommendations would be
>> appreciated, I don't think the wireless speed matters much 11mbps
>> should be ample.
>>
>> And I best ask - how secure would all this be? I do a lot of movie
>> editing at home so that's pretty critical. I'd prefer to go wireless
>> as getting RJ45 from downstairs to upstairs would be quite a task.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Matt
>> www.chainsaw-films.com
>
>
> Most of the wirwless routers will work (using DHCP) right out of the box
> - and the direction aren't too bad. Security on the other hand - you'll
> have to set up; but again the direction will help you along.
>

Thanks for the reply mate.