Wireless connection to Internet?

I hope this is the right group to post this question to.....apologies if
not.

I had a Wanadoo 512k broadband connection with no problems and I took the
option of upgrading to 1Mb, paying a £20 re-grade charge. Since the
regrade, I have had a very 'erratic' connection in terms of speed and
connectivity.

BT have checked in the house and it was determind that I should change my
master box to have a filter front plate and run an ADSL extension (CAT5)
from that to try as the extensions failed BT's tests.

The good news is that my connection is now stable.

The bad news is that it is not practical for me to have the cable running
across the room and there is no easy way to route it round to the location
of my computer and I cannot move the computer to the master socket.

So, I'm looking at options.

Is this a case for a wireless connection? Can I put a router / whatever at
the master socket and attach a wireless modem / whatever to my computer at
the far side of the room? As you can see, my knowledge in this area is
limited.

What kit would I need to buy? Are there any security or performance
drawbacks (I run Norton Security on my computer already, will this still be
suffiecient for a wireless connection?)?

Hopefully, someone will be able to steer me in he right direction....thank
you in advance.

Well since you are in England (I'm guessing this from the use of the
pond, but you might be in another country which doesn't really change
anything because you are not in the USA & Canada). I'd inform you do
not even try to purchase the Microsoft hardware as it is designed to
only work in the USA & Canada.

Now to be of some help I'll suggest you check out several sights with
information about your problem as well a google.

http://www.error629.com/error629.com/

http://www.neotechcc.org/cablemodem.htm

http://www.dslreports.com/

NewsGroupQuestion wrote:

> I hope this is the right group to post this question to.....apologies if
> not.
>
> I had a Wanadoo 512k broadband connection with no problems and I took the
> option of upgrading to 1Mb, paying a £20 re-grade charge. Since the
> regrade, I have had a very 'erratic' connection in terms of speed and
> connectivity.
>
> BT have checked in the house and it was determind that I should change my
> master box to have a filter front plate and run an ADSL extension (CAT5)
> from that to try as the extensions failed BT's tests.
>
> The good news is that my connection is now stable.
>
> The bad news is that it is not practical for me to have the cable running
> across the room and there is no easy way to route it round to the location
> of my computer and I cannot move the computer to the master socket.
>
> So, I'm looking at options.
>
> Is this a case for a wireless connection? Can I put a router / whatever at
> the master socket and attach a wireless modem / whatever to my computer at
> the far side of the room? As you can see, my knowledge in this area is
> limited.
>
> What kit would I need to buy? Are there any security or performance
> drawbacks (I run Norton Security on my computer already, will this still be
> suffiecient for a wireless connection?)?
>
> Hopefully, someone will be able to steer me in he right direction....thank
> you in advance.
>
>
>

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Sorry I meant to say Pound not pond, as in "£". Once again a spell
checker doesn't catch all mistakes.

Joker wrote:

> Well since you are in England (I'm guessing this from the use of the
> pond, but you might be in another country which doesn't really change
> anything because you are not in the USA & Canada). I'd inform you do
> not even try to purchase the Microsoft hardware as it is designed to
> only work in the USA & Canada.
>
> Now to be of some help I'll suggest you check out several sights with
> information about your problem as well a google.
>
> http://www.error629.com/error629.com/
>
> http://www.neotechcc.org/cablemodem.htm
>
> http://www.dslreports.com/
>


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Please do not contact me directly or ask me to contact you directly for
assistance.

If your question is worth asking, it's worth posting.

If it’s not worth posting you should have done a search on
http://www.google.com/ http://www.google.com/grphp?hl=en&tab=wg&q= or
http://news.google.com/froogle?hl=en&tab=nf&ned=us&q= before wasting our
time.

Try your local Mum & Pop Computer shoppe, they have
knowledgable staff there and will be better able to help a
bloke in your situation.

>-----Original Message-----
>Sorry I meant to say Pound not pond, as in "£". Once
again a spell
>checker doesn't catch all mistakes.
>
>Joker wrote:
>
>> Well since you are in England (I'm guessing this from
the use of the
>> pond, but you might be in another country which doesn't
really change
>> anything because you are not in the USA & Canada). I'd
inform you do
>> not even try to purchase the Microsoft hardware as it
is designed to
>> only work in the USA & Canada.
>>
>> Now to be of some help I'll suggest you check out
several sights with
>> information about your problem as well a google.
>>
>> http://www.error629.com/error629.com/
>>
>> http://www.neotechcc.org/cablemodem.htm
>>
>> http://www.dslreports.com/
>>
>
>
>--
>Please do not contact me directly or ask me to contact
you directly for
>assistance.
>
>If your question is worth asking, it's worth posting.
>
>If it's not worth posting you should have done a search
on
>http://www.google.com/ http://www.google.com/grphp?
hl=en&tab=wg&q= or
>http://news.google.com/froogle?hl=en&tab=nf&ned=us&q=
before wasting our
>time.
>.
>