Sky Broadband - No ethernet on PC

Hi guys
Looking to migrate to Sky BB from Pipex. Sick of their slow speeds and port
throttling.
I guess the netgear router which you get free with Sky will have an ethernet
connection?

My PC, does not have an ethernet card installed. Not a real problem I can
get one installed, but is there any minimum spec on type of card? 10/100 or
10/100/100?

"diy-newby" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi guys
> Looking to migrate to Sky BB from Pipex. Sick of their slow speeds and
> port throttling.
> I guess the netgear router which you get free with Sky will have an
> ethernet connection?
>
> My PC, does not have an ethernet card installed. Not a real problem I can
> get one installed, but is there any minimum spec on type of card? 10/100
> or 10/100/100?
>
>
>

Any network card will do. Really the minimum is an 10/100 card, although a
10/100/1000 card isn't that expensive (actually you may find that this is
the only type of card that are stocked).

diy-newby <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
: My PC, does not have an ethernet card installed. Not a real problem I can
: get one installed, but is there any minimum spec on type of card? 10/100 or
: 10/100/100?

The Sky router (unless the DG834G has been upgraded recently) is 10/100Mb

The ADSL link is so (relatively) slow that virtually any cheap (~10 pounds)
Ethernet card is going to be quite adequate for it.

Brian McIlwrath wrote:

> diy-newby <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> : My PC, does not have an ethernet card installed. Not a real problem I can
> : get one installed, but is there any minimum spec on type of card? 10/100 or
> : 10/100/100?
>
> The Sky router (unless the DG834G has been upgraded recently) is 10/100Mb
>
> The ADSL link is so (relatively) slow that virtually any cheap (~10 pounds)
> Ethernet card is going to be quite adequate for it.

I'm sure my perfectly adequate 10/100 card wasn't more than £5 or £6.

Graham

Eeyore <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

: I'm sure my perfectly adequate 10/100 card wasn't more than £5 or £6.

That sounds fine! There are more expensive Ethernet cards (designed more
for company networks) which offload much of the traffic processing from
the CPU. These are generally overkill for home ADSL.

Brian McIlwrath wrote:

> Eeyore <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> : I'm sure my perfectly adequate 10/100 card wasn't more than £5 or £6.
>
> That sounds fine! There are more expensive Ethernet cards (designed more
> for company networks) which offload much of the traffic processing from
> the CPU. These are generally overkill for home ADSL.

Agreed.

The OP also doesn't need the 'boot from network' option.

Graham

I think you'll find that you need a wireless adapter rather than an ethernet
card. In their pack they say that if you don't have one then they can
provide one for about £20.

"diy-newby" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi guys
> Looking to migrate to Sky BB from Pipex. Sick of their slow speeds and
> port throttling.
> I guess the netgear router which you get free with Sky will have an
> ethernet connection?
>
> My PC, does not have an ethernet card installed. Not a real problem I can
> get one installed, but is there any minimum spec on type of card? 10/100
> or 10/100/100?
>
>
>

In article <zL3Bh.10201$(E-Mail Removed)>, kipper@remove
says...

> "diy-newby" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...

> Hi guys
> Looking to migrate to Sky BB from Pipex. Sick of their slow speeds and
> port throttling.
> I guess the netgear router which you get free with Sky will have an
> ethernet connection?
> My PC, does not have an ethernet card installed. Not a real problem I can
> get one installed, but is there any minimum spec on type of card? 10/100
> or 10/100/100?
>

>> I think you'll find that you need a wireless adapter rather than an
>> ethernet card. In their pack they say that if you don't have one
>> then they can provide one for about £20.
>

Top posting corrected!

No, he will need a network card in his PC, that is unless there is
already a Network Connecter already on the motherboard as most modern
motherboards come with a Network connecter (socket) on the back, along
with all the other connections.

As I understand, you need to set up a wired ethernet connection before
you can even think about setting up a wireless connection.

"G a z ." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> As I understand, you need to set up a wired ethernet connection before
> you can even think about setting up a wireless connection.

Nope.. Sky works out of the box and has wpa security set too.
You just install the adapter and enter the key when prompted.

dennis@home wrote:
> "G a z ." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
>>
>> As I understand, you need to set up a wired ethernet connection
>> before you can even think about setting up a wireless connection.
>
> Nope.. Sky works out of the box and has wpa security set too.
> You just install the adapter and enter the key when prompted.

You sure mine came with WEP on, which I turned off immediately as I
already have a WAP on the network.

Also turned off the DHCP server as I'm running with fixed IP thru a
seperate firewall but that's neither here nor there


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