Wireless Broadband Routers - any recomendations?

Hi there,

I need a good wireless broadband router. Can anyone recommend any?

Are there any pitfalls in having wireless?

Thanks
K

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:21:44 +0100, Karl Bedingfield surfed in from
cyberspace:

> Hi there,
>
> I need a good wireless broadband router. Can anyone recommend any?
>
> Are there any pitfalls in having wireless?
>
> Thanks
> K

I have a 3COM wireless router which was easy to install and works fine.
Pitfalls? Well there is a security issue with wireless networking - Google
is your friend
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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Karl Bedingfield <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I need a good wireless broadband router. Can anyone recommend any?
>
> Are there any pitfalls in having wireless?
>
> Thanks
> K

I'm quite happy with my 3Com 3CRWE754G - which came with a "free" PCMCIA
wireless card for my laptop.

Make sure that you take adequate precautions to stop the world and his dog
from gatecrashing your wireless LAN:
* use the highest level of encryption that all your kit can collectively
support
* use MAC address filtering - so that the router only talks to wireless
devices it knows about
* turn off SSID broadcasting

Make sure that you've got the ability to connect at least one PC via a wired
connection, and use this to configure the router. [If you configure it with
a wireless PC and manage to screw up the security, you're stuffed - because
you can't see what the router's doing or modify the config to get back on
the air!]
--
Cheers,
Tim
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"Tiscali Tim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
> Karl Bedingfield <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I need a good wireless broadband router. Can anyone recommend any?
>>
>> Are there any pitfalls in having wireless?
>>
>> Thanks
>> K
>
> I'm quite happy with my 3Com 3CRWE754G - which came with a "free" PCMCIA
> wireless card for my laptop.
>
> Make sure that you take adequate precautions to stop the world and his dog
> from gatecrashing your wireless LAN:
> * use the highest level of encryption that all your kit can collectively
> support
> * use MAC address filtering - so that the router only talks to wireless
> devices it knows about
> * turn off SSID broadcasting
>
> Make sure that you've got the ability to connect at least one PC via a
> wired
> connection, and use this to configure the router. [If you configure it
> with
> a wireless PC and manage to screw up the security, you're stuffed -
> because
> you can't see what the router's doing or modify the config to get back on
> the air!]
> --
> Cheers,
> Tim
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> Please reply to newsgroup. Reply address is invalid.
>
>