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WiFi LAN with ADSL?!?!

jra

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I am having ADSL installed and am also looking to purchase a laptop. I have a PC at home and at first looked to network the PC and laptop and share the ADSL Connection.

I am now thinking that the cabling job is going to be a nightmare and quite fancy the idea of adding WiFi (especially to the laptop).

I've done a bit of research and reckon the following:

I can create a wireless LAN using WiFi Access point and WiFi cards in my machines. Instead of an WiFi access point. I could purchase a WiFi ADSL route (such as the netgear FM114P) that would connect to my ADSL socket, act as a firewall and allow suitably equiped PCs and laptops to run on a LAN and all access the ADSL connection.

IS this correct? Am I looking at this in the right way? The netgear products are my basic solution, does anyone know how well they perform and what other products out there will do the same?

Any help and advice would be great
 
I believe your solution is quite workable, as I've been considering the same solution myself. You'll need an ADSL modem as well as the Netgear ADSL wireless router, as it doesn't contain the modem itself, I believe.

To reduce potential complications even further you could buy a modem/router/firewall/wireless box all in one: the two that I'm aware of are the brand new Vigor 2600We, at 259 pounds from seg.co.uk and the Speed Touch Wireless (570) ADSL Modem/Router at 299 pounds from dslsource.co.uk.
With these you still need to buy a wireless card for each desktop pc and PCMCIA card for the laptop, plus microfilters at about 7 pounds each for each socket connected to a telephone.
Hope that helps.
 
I currently have a Modem/Router (D-Link DSL 504) and attached to it, a Wireless Access Point (D-Link DWL 1000AP). No software or drivers required to get these to work under Windows XP Pro - all controlled using IP.

My sister's laptop has a Wireless card, which uses a USB port (I went for the external option, so I can use it with desktops or laptops).

Seriously works well and max. download speeds of around 46k to 54k per second - fantastic solution.

I went for separates, as I am aware that things tend to go far more wrong with too many integrated items. I decided to keep my Wi-Fi equipment separate for convenience and maintainability.

I hope this helps somewhat.
Vik
 
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