Wireless or Wired?

I have recently acquired ADSL and another laptop, and so I am thinking of
getting an adsl router. The DG834 seems to be good but for the future I
might be tempted to get the wireless version - dg834g. The thing is, I have
heard somewhere that you can get some sort of adapter for the wired version
that fits into the ethernet slot allowing wireless networking, I personally
would prefer this, but I'm not actually sure if this exists and if it does,
where to buy one!

Any help would be apprecieated

Any wired router can be converted to a wireless router by adding a wireless
access point, but it's quite likely that the combination of buying a wired
router and a WAP separately will be higher than the cost of just buying a
wireless router now.

You could always purchase a wireless router and disable the radio
transmitter, then turn it back on again when you do have wireless clients to
connect to it.

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"Daniel Foster" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have recently acquired ADSL and another laptop, and so I am thinking of
> getting an adsl router. The DG834 seems to be good but for the future I
> might be tempted to get the wireless version - dg834g. The thing is, I
have
> heard somewhere that you can get some sort of adapter for the wired
version
> that fits into the ethernet slot allowing wireless networking, I
personally
> would prefer this, but I'm not actually sure if this exists and if it
does,
> where to buy one!
>
> Any help would be apprecieated
>
>

"Daniel Foster" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<#(E-Mail Removed)>...
> I have recently acquired ADSL and another laptop, and so I am thinking of
> getting an adsl router. The DG834 seems to be good but for the future I
> might be tempted to get the wireless version - dg834g. The thing is, I have
> heard somewhere that you can get some sort of adapter for the wired version
> that fits into the ethernet slot allowing wireless networking, I personally
> would prefer this, but I'm not actually sure if this exists and if it does,
> where to buy one!
>
> Any help would be apprecieated

I guess you know that the DG834 is an ADSL modem, switch, and router
all in one and the DG834g adds wireless capability. I suppose you
could buy a wireless access point at a later date to plug into one of
the LAN ethernet ports, but the total cost would most likely be more
than just buying the DG834g. The DG834g has four wired ports as well
as the wireless access. My first router was wired only, and it was
only a short time later that I wanted wireless capability. My advice
would be to buy the DG834g.

Regards, jimbo