Wireless receiver - Recommendation please

A friend is getting BT broadband on 9th May. Option 1 is now supplied with
the BT Home Hub, looking on their website it appears that it doesn't come
supplied with a wireless receiver. This will be required as the PC is a
desktop not located beside a phone point and installing an extra phone point
is not an option. Recommendations required as to what type would be most
suitable and give a decent range. I'd be up to fitting one of the PCI card
type if that was required. TIA.

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JC

JC wrote:
> A friend is getting BT broadband on 9th May. Option 1 is now supplied
> with the BT Home Hub, looking on their website it appears that it
> doesn't come supplied with a wireless receiver. This will be required
> as the PC is a desktop not located beside a phone point and
> installing an extra phone point is not an option. Recommendations
> required as to what type would be most suitable and give a decent
> range. I'd be up to fitting one of the PCI card type if that was
> required. TIA.

Not used any PCI types but my next-door neighbour uses a Linksys USB adapter
and reckons it's brilliant http://www.ebuyer.com/product/127031

John

Stay clear of the Belkin USB Wireless G (P/N F5D7050uk) as the version 3
hardware versions fail to load on XP properly, despite there being a
knowledgebase article on the Belkin website about it.

Adam


"JC" <tullyhubbert@ (Spam Trap) yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> A friend is getting BT broadband on 9th May. Option 1 is now supplied with
> the BT Home Hub, looking on their website it appears that it doesn't come
> supplied with a wireless receiver. This will be required as the PC is a
> desktop not located beside a phone point and installing an extra phone
> point is not an option. Recommendations required as to what type would be
> most suitable and give a decent range. I'd be up to fitting one of the PCI
> card type if that was required. TIA.
>
> --
> JC
>

"JC" <tullyhubbert@ (Spam Trap) yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> A friend is getting BT broadband on 9th May. Option 1 is now supplied with
> the BT Home Hub, looking on their website it appears that it doesn't come
> supplied with a wireless receiver. This will be required as the PC is a
> desktop not located beside a phone point and installing an extra phone
point
> is not an option. Recommendations required as to what type would be most
> suitable and give a decent range. I'd be up to fitting one of the PCI card
> type if that was required. TIA.
>
> --
> JC

We use these at our workplace. 18 of them.
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132439 (Plexus)

Highly recommended an well priced too....

In message <wNKdndpvzabnk4fVRVnygwA@plusnet>, JC
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>
>A friend is getting BT broadband on 9th May. Option 1 is now supplied with
>the BT Home Hub, looking on their website it appears that it doesn't come
>supplied with a wireless receiver. This will be required as the PC is a
>desktop not located beside a phone point and installing an extra phone point
>is not an option. Recommendations required as to what type would be most
>suitable and give a decent range. I'd be up to fitting one of the PCI card
>type if that was required. TIA.
>
Would probably suggest a USB one rather than the PCI card. If there are
signal strength problems it's easy to put it on a short extension lead
and move it about (out from behind the PC - a metal box full of
interference) to improve the signal.

If you really have poor signal penetration there is always the option of
adding a Woktenna!!

http://www.exe64.com/mirror/wokfi/
--
Peter R Cook

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> <(E-Mail Removed)> writes

> >
> Would probably suggest a USB one rather than the PCI card. If there are
> signal strength problems it's easy to put it on a short extension lead
> and move it about (out from behind the PC - a metal box full of
> interference) to improve the signal.

I agree entirely and that is why we decided to use USB adapters rather than
a PCI card. PCI cards are stuck where the PC is located. A USB adapter can
be put anywhere in the vacinity where a signal is best. It also means you
dont tie up a balued PCI slot (which can be rare to find on many boards). By
far the signal issue is the main reason I decided to go to USB.

JC wrote:
> A friend is getting BT broadband on 9th May. Option 1 is now supplied
> with the BT Home Hub, looking on their website it appears that it
> doesn't come supplied with a wireless receiver. This will be required
> as the PC is a desktop not located beside a phone point and
> installing an extra phone point is not an option. Recommendations
> required as to what type would be most suitable and give a decent
> range. I'd be up to fitting one of the PCI card type if that was
> required. TIA.

If a "decent range" is required, then I would be tempted to use a wired
connection.

Could you run some ethernet cable from router to PC ? Maximum run lengths
are huge.
Alternatively, I would consider "homeplug" solutions, which are about £50 at
Dabs and Solwise for middle performance.

If its a fairly short range and the walls are not too wireless hostile, then
the USB options mentioned elsewhere are fine.






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Nigel Cliffe,
Webmaster at http://www.2mm.org.uk/

"JC" <tullyhubbert@ (Spam Trap) yahoo.com> wrote in
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>
> A friend is getting BT broadband on 9th May. Option 1 is now supplied
> with the BT Home Hub, looking on their website it appears that it
> doesn't come supplied with a wireless receiver. This will be required
> as the PC is a desktop not located beside a phone point and installing
> an extra phone point is not an option. Recommendations required as to
> what type would be most suitable and give a decent range. I'd be up to
> fitting one of the PCI card type if that was required. TIA.
>

I use a Belkin wireless bridge. This connects to the NIC via ethernet so
no drivers, can be sited away from the PC and with a switch can give you
multiple ports at the "remote" site. There are no 802.11n devices in the
UK yet though.

I like this solution as I can multiboot XP and Linux and don't need to
reconfigure, well only the NIC.

"JC" <tullyhubbert@ (Spam Trap) yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> A friend is getting BT broadband on 9th May. Option 1 is now supplied with
> the BT Home Hub, looking on their website it appears that it doesn't come
> supplied with a wireless receiver. This will be required as the PC is a
> desktop not located beside a phone point and installing an extra phone
> point is not an option. Recommendations required as to what type would be
> most suitable and give a decent range. I'd be up to fitting one of the PCI
> card type if that was required. TIA.
>
> --
> JC
>
Check out HomePlug e.g. at www.solwise.co.uk. I used a wireless homeplug
which I can position anywhere in the house, and also get good wireless range
on top, but for a desktop you could save £££ by using just ethernet
HomePlug.

Ron