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[Ned Flanders]

This is gonna be my first stab at sharing a cable modem connection via wireless and I really don't know too much about the whole setup. I've heard good things about D-Link stuff and to my knowledge, 802.11g is currently the fastest wireless available. But for comparable performance I'd take a cheaper option if I could. Whats your wireless setup?

 

[mrklaw]

I have a belikin Pre-N Mimo wireless router and belkin pre-N desktop card.

Averages 34MB/s real world usage, with no drop if you have 'b' devices on the network (which I do). You need to use the same manufacturer pairing to get the best throughput on turbo devices like these, but thats not a problem if you are building from the ground up.

Note that the belkin isn't an ADSL modem, so you'd need one of those separately, and wire it into the WAN port on the router.


How do you want to set up? i.e. how is your internet coming into your house, and where are your devices located? I have two devices that are wireless, accessing via the router. The rest are wired into the routers LAN ports.

 

[Ned Flanders]

I'm going to have a cable modem and 2 PC's..like so:




[modem] ------{router}-----PC 1


(bridge)-----PC2


Pretty basic. I might occassionally swap the PS2 off the bridge but I don't anticipate having multiple devices connected at the same time. Also, klaw, can you give me some idea as to the pricing/availability of your setup? Where'd you buy it, or where do you recommend buying from?

 

[mrklaw]

PC 1 going to be wired to your router? In that case, you don't need a bridge on PC2, just get a wireless PCI card - cheaper than a bridge and faster too.

Belkin Pre-N is more expensive than other turboG solutions, but not massively more so. I'm in the UK and picked it up at PC world (not what you do if you want to save money, but my previous one died so I needed a quick solution)


FWIW, This week in tech recently recommended the same setup.