Which Wireless Router

I am a long term lurker on this group and have learnt quite a lot.
My daughter wants to go wireless, she currently has the basic BT setup.
Advice on suitable router would be very much appreciated.
John Gifford

"John Gifford" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I am a long term lurker on this group and have learnt quite a lot.
> My daughter wants to go wireless, she currently has the basic BT setup.
> Advice on suitable router would be very much appreciated.
> John Gifford

I can recommend the Netgear DG834G/GT/PN routers from my own experience and
installing them for other people. Easy to set up, good log file to explain
fault it it doesn't work.

Don't recommend BT Home Hub - very difficult to set up, especially to set
WPA instead of WEP wireless security (HomeHub keeps reverting back to WEP).

Mortimer wrote:
> "John Gifford" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:fi2849$tj6$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I am a long term lurker on this group and have learnt quite a lot.
>> My daughter wants to go wireless, she currently has the basic BT setup.
>> Advice on suitable router would be very much appreciated.
>> John Gifford
>
> I can recommend the Netgear DG834G/GT/PN routers from my own experience and
> installing them for other people. Easy to set up, good log file to explain
> fault it it doesn't work.
>
> Don't recommend BT Home Hub - very difficult to set up, especially to set
> WPA instead of WEP wireless security (HomeHub keeps reverting back to WEP).
>
>
I hope your house isn't too big. In laws refused to take advice. Office
in garage has router. 15 yards away radio communication (think its a
belkin) has been nothing but trouble from day one.

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:44:05 -0000, Mortimer <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>"John Gifford" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:fi2849$tj6$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>I am a long term lurker on this group and have learnt quite a lot.
>> My daughter wants to go wireless, she currently has the basic BT setup.
>> Advice on suitable router would be very much appreciated.
>> John Gifford
>
>I can recommend the Netgear DG834G/GT/PN routers from my own experience and
>installing them for other people. Easy to set up, good log file to explain
>fault it it doesn't work.

Seconded, I use a DG834GT and have yet to hear any problems where I've
recommended that unit for others.

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"Soruk" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:44:05 -0000, Mortimer <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>"John Gifford" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>news:fi2849$tj6$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>I am a long term lurker on this group and have learnt quite a lot.
>>> My daughter wants to go wireless, she currently has the basic BT setup.
>>> Advice on suitable router would be very much appreciated.
>>> John Gifford
>>
>>I can recommend the Netgear DG834G/GT/PN routers from my own experience
>>and
>>installing them for other people. Easy to set up, good log file to explain
>>fault it it doesn't work.
>
> Seconded, I use a DG834GT and have yet to hear any problems where I've
> recommended that unit for others.
>
> --
> -- Michael "Soruk" McConnell Eridani Star System
> MailStripper - http://www.MailStripper.eu/ - SMTP spam filter
> Second Number - http://secondnumber.matrixnetwork.co.uk/


i also use 834GT (sky branded and reflashed) no problems with it that i dont
cause myself by medding

"The Natural Philosopher" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Mortimer wrote:
>> "John Gifford" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:fi2849$tj6$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> I am a long term lurker on this group and have learnt quite a lot.
>>> My daughter wants to go wireless, she currently has the basic BT setup.
>>> Advice on suitable router would be very much appreciated.
>>> John Gifford
>>
>> I can recommend the Netgear DG834G/GT/PN routers from my own experience
>> and installing them for other people. Easy to set up, good log file to
>> explain fault it it doesn't work.
>>
>> Don't recommend BT Home Hub - very difficult to set up, especially to set
>> WPA instead of WEP wireless security (HomeHub keeps reverting back to
>> WEP).
> I hope your house isn't too big. In laws refused to take advice. Office in
> garage has router. 15 yards away radio communication (think its a belkin)
> has been nothing but trouble from day one.

My GT gives a good signal throughout my house (upstairs and downstairs -
router is upstairs at front; I'm currently downstairs at back and I'm
getting "very good 54 Mbps") though my house is only 7 years old and the
internal walls are just plasterboard on studding. I also get usable (though
slow) reception at the bottom of my back garden and across the 100 foot car
parking area at the front.

Thick stone walls, tanks of water (*) or metal fireplaces in old houses ar a
real problem. The DG834PN may be better because it uses multi-aerial
technology, though I've never actually had G, GT and PN at the same time to
do comparative tests.


(*) Water is opaque to microwaves of that frequency which is why they are
free for use by local wireless networks because they are useless for
long-distance comms. Same frequencies are used for microwave ovens because
the absorbtion of microwaves by water in food, making the hydrogen-oxygen
bonds resonate, is what makes the food heat up.

The Natural Philosopher <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Mortimer wrote:
> > "John Gifford" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:fi2849$tj6$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> I am a long term lurker on this group and have learnt quite a lot.
> >> My daughter wants to go wireless, she currently has the basic BT setup.
> >> Advice on suitable router would be very much appreciated.
> >> John Gifford
> >
> > I can recommend the Netgear DG834G/GT/PN routers from my own experience and
> > installing them for other people. Easy to set up, good log file to explain
> > fault it it doesn't work.
> >
> > Don't recommend BT Home Hub - very difficult to set up, especially to set
> > WPA instead of WEP wireless security (HomeHub keeps reverting back to WEP).
> >
> >
> I hope your house isn't too big. In laws refused to take advice. Office
> in garage has router. 15 yards away radio communication (think its a
> belkin) has been nothing but trouble from day one.

Why are people *so* insistent on using wireless? I have resisted
it so far and just install cat5 cables as and when needed. That
includes one to the garage (30 metres or so from the house) so that
I can put the backup NAS in the garage for security in case of
disaster.

I do have a wireless router which has only been used so far to confirm
that the wireless connection on my wife's laptop works. Apart from
that I can really see no use for it.

Another advantage of wired connections (for me) is that I get 1Gb/s
connections so backing up large files across the network is realistic.

N.B. this is just a small SoHo network, three (sometimes four) PCs and
a couple of printers with an ADSL connection.

--
Chris Green

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:31:53 -0000, "John Gifford"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I am a long term lurker on this group and have learnt quite a lot.
>My daughter wants to go wireless, she currently has the basic BT setup.
>Advice on suitable router would be very much appreciated.
>John Gifford
>

I use and recommend a Buffalo router. They do several models ( I use
the basic one ), the chief advantage of them being the 'one touch'
AOSS secure setup. Click a button on the client software, press the
AOSS button on the router and the system sets itself up.

The router interface isn't the most legible I've seen, but the
performance is good, as is the range.
I'm running one wired machine and two wireless on it and it hasn't
skipped a beat yet.

Regards,



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Stephen Howard - Woodwind repairs & period restorations
www.shwoodwind.co.uk
Emails to: showard{whoisat}shwoodwind{dot}co{dot}uk

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> The Natural Philosopher <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> Mortimer wrote:
>>> "John Gifford" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>> news:fi2849$tj6$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>> I am a long term lurker on this group and have learnt quite a lot.
>>>> My daughter wants to go wireless, she currently has the basic BT setup.
>>>> Advice on suitable router would be very much appreciated.
>>>> John Gifford
>>> I can recommend the Netgear DG834G/GT/PN routers from my own experience and
>>> installing them for other people. Easy to set up, good log file to explain
>>> fault it it doesn't work.
>>>
>>> Don't recommend BT Home Hub - very difficult to set up, especially to set
>>> WPA instead of WEP wireless security (HomeHub keeps reverting back to WEP).
>>>
>>>
>> I hope your house isn't too big. In laws refused to take advice. Office
>> in garage has router. 15 yards away radio communication (think its a
>> belkin) has been nothing but trouble from day one.
>
> Why are people *so* insistent on using wireless?

Cos its new,sexy, and they don't have to 'lay cable' - a black art
reserved to qualified Prat Pee 'electrishans' who charge an arm and a
leg and leve the house looking like a bombsite?
;-)

I have resisted
> it so far and just install cat5 cables as and when needed. That
> includes one to the garage (30 metres or so from the house) so that
> I can put the backup NAS in the garage for security in case of
> disaster.
>
> I do have a wireless router which has only been used so far to confirm
> that the wireless connection on my wife's laptop works. Apart from
> that I can really see no use for it.
>
Or laptops. Another ghastly invention,that costs more, gets stolen all
the time has a crap keyboard, no mouse, flakey dongles stuck all over it
and means that with he person sitting watching TV AND surfing you wont
EVER get more than a grunt out of them?

"Mortimer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Thick stone walls, tanks of water (*) or metal fireplaces in old houses ar
> a real problem. The DG834PN may be better because it uses multi-aerial
> technology, though I've never actually had G, GT and PN at the same time
> to do comparative tests.

Foil lined plaster board is a nightmare.
My ex boss' builders used it on the interior and exterior walls and you
couldn't get a reliable signal on either side of the wall.
I suggested cutting some nice slot aerials but I don't think he was keen on
redecorating.