Please, I need advice on wireless broadband

Hi!
I am moving soon and in the new place I won't have a telephone jack in
my room. There is a phone line in the house that can be made broadband
compatible. I was wondering if there is any piece of equipment that I
can use to connect to the phone jack in the lounge that will allow me
to use my pc in my room wirelessly.
I have got broadband with Virgin at the moment and I am quite happy
with them, they won't charge me for moving, which is great. But I am
concerned about the hassle of getting a new phone line installed when I
only really need it for the broadband, so I would like to keep it
simple. My computer is an Athlon 64 compaq presario, if that makes any
difference.
What would you recommed?
Please, I need some help.
Regards,
Sammy

Sammy wrote:
> Hi!
> I am moving soon and in the new place I won't have a telephone jack in
> my room. There is a phone line in the house that can be made broadband
> compatible. I was wondering if there is any piece of equipment that I
> can use to connect to the phone jack in the lounge that will allow me
> to use my pc in my room wirelessly.
> I have got broadband with Virgin at the moment and I am quite happy
> with them, they won't charge me for moving, which is great. But I am
> concerned about the hassle of getting a new phone line installed when I
> only really need it for the broadband, so I would like to keep it
> simple. My computer is an Athlon 64 compaq presario, if that makes any
> difference.
> What would you recommed?

You need two things. A wireless router, that goes in the room with the
phone line, and a wireless network card, that connects to the PC. I'm
guessing you're not the sort of user who wants to open up his computer
and mess with the internals, so I recommend you buy a USB wireless
adaptor. If you are confident about installing something inside the PC
you could buy a PCI wireless adaptor, or if you don't mind spending
extra money you could take the PC to PC World who I believe will install
one for you, for a charge (and also charge more for the adaptor than if
you buy online). I'm using a Netgear DG834GT router (the DG834G is a
similar product, but slower - you wouldn't notice the difference with
only one PC connected). It seems to work fine so far but I've not had it
for long - I've had Netgear stuff before and I've always thought of them
as a decent company, for reasonably priced consumer network stuff. It's
also a good idea to buy a router and adaptor from the same company
because you're less likely to have problems.

Whatever kit you get, make sure it supports WPA encryption, and as soon
as you get it, turn this on. The instructions should make this
straightforward enough. Without WPA you run the risk that your
neighbours could use your broadband connection and potentially access
your PC, which you do not want to happen - they could cause problems for
the PC, and you could get in trouble for things they do while on your
internet connection. There's another type of encryption called WEP but
this isn't as secure so you should avoid it.

HTH

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Phil

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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Phil Newnham <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Sammy wrote:
>> Hi!
>> I am moving soon and in the new place I won't have a telephone jack
>> in my room. There is a phone line in the house that can be made
>> broadband compatible. I was wondering if there is any piece of
>> equipment that I can use to connect to the phone jack in the lounge
>> that will allow me to use my pc in my room wirelessly.
>> I have got broadband with Virgin at the moment and I am quite happy
>> with them, they won't charge me for moving, which is great. But I am
>> concerned about the hassle of getting a new phone line installed
>> when I only really need it for the broadband, so I would like to
>> keep it simple. My computer is an Athlon 64 compaq presario, if that
>> makes any difference.
>> What would you recommed?
>
> You need two things. A wireless router, that goes in the room with the
> phone line, and a wireless network card, that connects to the PC. I'm
> guessing you're not the sort of user who wants to open up his computer
> and mess with the internals, so I recommend you buy a USB wireless
> adaptor. If you are confident about installing something inside the PC
> you could buy a PCI wireless adaptor, or if you don't mind spending
> extra money you could take the PC to PC World who I believe will
> install one for you, for a charge (and also charge more for the
> adaptor than if you buy online). I'm using a Netgear DG834GT router
> (the DG834G is a similar product, but slower - you wouldn't notice
> the difference with only one PC connected). It seems to work fine so
> far but I've not had it for long - I've had Netgear stuff before and
> I've always thought of them as a decent company, for reasonably
> priced consumer network stuff. It's also a good idea to buy a router
> and adaptor from the same company because you're less likely to have
> problems.
>
> Whatever kit you get, make sure it supports WPA encryption, and as
> soon as you get it, turn this on. The instructions should make this
> straightforward enough. Without WPA you run the risk that your
> neighbours could use your broadband connection and potentially access
> your PC, which you do not want to happen - they could cause problems
> for the PC, and you could get in trouble for things they do while on
> your internet connection. There's another type of encryption called
> WEP but this isn't as secure so you should avoid it.
>
> HTH

Also make sure that you have a means of making a wired connection to the
router for the purpose of configuring it. It is all too easy - particularly
when setting up the encryption parameters - to do something which stops the
router from talking to a wirelessly connected computer - and you then have
no means of correcting it, other than a hard reset back to the factory
default settings.

For a wired connection, your computer needs a standard network port - which
it pretty certainly already has - and you need an ethernet cable with an
RJ45 plug on each end. A short cable will almost certainly come with the
router - so you can connect if you temporarily move the computer next to the
router. Or you could trail a longer cable up the stairs for as long as it
takes to sort the config.
--
Cheers,
Tim
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Hi, guys!
Thank you for your help.
I have been looking to purchase the Netgear DG834GT Modem Firewall
Router and a pc i wireless adaptor (I am pretty confident I should be
able to install the card inside the pc myself). If I buy the Netgear
DG834GT router, would it work with the Netgear WG311T 108 Mbps
Wireless PCI Adapter? I think this is the right card, but I just want
to double check before I buy it, as it is quite a big purchase.
Regards,
Sammy

Sammy wrote:
> Hi, guys!
> Thank you for your help.
> I have been looking to purchase the Netgear DG834GT Modem Firewall
> Router and a pc i wireless adaptor (I am pretty confident I should be
> able to install the card inside the pc myself). If I buy the Netgear
> DG834GT router, would it work with the Netgear WG311T 108 Mbps
> Wireless PCI Adapter? I think this is the right card, but I just want
> to double check before I buy it, as it is quite a big purchase.
> Regards,
> Sammy

Its the correct card.
If you don't like opening your PC you could use the wg111t USB2 adapter.
You can get this bundled with the router for about £90 or less. (its only
£93 @ pcworld).