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Old 05 December 2005, 08:10 PM
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Default Idiots guide to wireless network please

Ok What I want to do is plug a box into the phone line and send a wireless signal throughout the house for broadband (one PC upstairs not near the phone line and one lap top)

Tal

What do I need and how much (cheap as possible please)

dont want any wires running to either pc

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Ok you need a wireless router, somthing like a Netgear DG834GT

then you need a wireless network card for each pc, unless they already have them.

Thats it.....some small config of the router is needed to make it secure.

whole setup should cost no more than 60-70 of your english pounds.
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Wanadoo do a wireless box - just got a new phone from Orange for £12.50 a month, offer of broadband for £9.99 a month and the wireless box is normally another £4 but those are free for 6 months - so I got a new Sony K750, Wireless box 2mb broadband for £22.49 for 6 months (rising to £39 after 6 months).

decent deal I thought.

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I've been mesing around with my wireless kit for a month or so now and felt like I was getting knowhere. I've just changed to a netgear DG834 , I found it very easy to setup compared to the dlink I had before and it does what it say's on the tin (unlike the dlink 604)
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If u go for Netgear get the PN model, not the GT. It uses Rangemax wireless, which turns your whole house into a wireless hotspot.
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Originally Posted by bioforger
If u go for Netgear get the PN model, not the GT. It uses Rangemax wireless, which turns your whole house into a wireless hotspot.
Your whole street
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heh that's why you use WPA encryption and don't broadcast it
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