Does he need one of these?
 

My son shares a house in Dublin and is set up for wireless on his own old PC running XP probably with 1.0 USB ports. The router is somewhere else in the house.

He can connect up usually but connections keep failing and he thinks the plug in adapter he uses (like a memory stick) is dodgy as it needs a thump to get it going. So I said I would get another if they weren't too expensive and see if that fixed things.

Now I haven't a clue what he needs so would it be one of these please?

Amazon.co.uk: usb wireless adapter

And which one as they seem to vary in price.

Is that enough to go on as I don't really know much more :nono:

Cheers, David

Now come on chaps :p

I thought you top rated PC guys knew E V E R Y T H I N G

Hopeful of Sussex

David

yes thats what he needs. its a wirless receiver :thumb:

Thank you mr_D. So do I just get the cheapest one or assume that the more expensive ones are more reliable?

Cheers, David

don't buy belikn

Netgear / Linksys / 3com are all OK.

Maybe get a "draft N" one for a bit of future proofing.

Netgear or linksys and get n version as above. much better for wirless signal. i have never had problem with mine.
i am using both of these.

what make is the router? try and match them up

I don't know but will ask and try and match.


Thanks again chaps. d

Is he on a tight budget? Id always recommend homeplugs instead of wireless. These 85Mb ones for £42 delivered for the pair (youll need one for the router end and one for his pc) will be fine and a much more stable connection:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Max-Value-Mb...7551028&sr=8-1

If his housemates went that way they could split the cost of the homeplug for the router end thus even cheapear. Downside is you do need a spare power socket at each end.

Depends on budget and how stable a connection he needs. For online gaming I would never go back to wireless.

Simon

David, aren't the youth of today supposed to tell us oldies all about IT guff, not the other way round? :wonder: :D

Simon - thanks. It's not so much as a tight budget, more a zero budget :cry: But point taken but will probably leave that until he returns to UK.

Scoobythingy - you have a point there. He is quite good at ignoring the instruction manual and getting things going though :thumb:

d