BURTON Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 What make is the best. I was looking at Netgear but heard and seen some people have had problems with them not working etc. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHo Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 I use Linksys personally (WAG54G) ADSL modem as well built in, works great no problems. Most people will have had different good/bad experiences of all makes. Linksys is now owned by Cisco, so you would hope they know a thing or two about Networking! Linksys doddle to configure, all browser driven (as are most of the others). Support not too bad, even wrote a new firmware revision to correct a bug I found ! Just remember to configure the wireless security, WPA if possible supported in XP SP1+Hotfixes or SP2 if not use 128bit WEP with open authentication. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BURTON Posted January 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 Yeah thats cool then.. Guess I will go for them then.. Also get my Xbox and Printer linked up too!! All is good!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHo Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 Got for it! Linksys do all the other bits you will need as well + they are dirt cheap (but not nasty!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mollox Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 Burton, check that the router will work with the xbox first... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BURTON Posted January 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 You mean with a bridge Mollox? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mollox Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 No, the actual router itself. Only a limited number of routers are approved by Microsoft - see the xbox site. however, this list is out of date so look on the router manufacturer's site for details of routers that have been tested with the xbox. For example, Netgear are only claiming xbox live compatibility (yet) for their 54mb DG834 and not the new 108GT model....worth watching out for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHo Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 Shouldn’t be a problem, although I'm a Playstation man myself. Get enough Microsoft at work so wouldn’t let one in the house . Don't know what ports etc. the XBOX uses to connect to, is it XBOX live? The Linksys + most other makes allow you to configure the necessary settings. The WAG54G at least, also supports Universal Plug n Play (UPnP) so if the XBOX does it should be able to detect the Linksys and configure it itself. Linksys also do a Wireless Gaming adapter WGA54G specifically for the Playstation XBox etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 I agree with IanHo. Linksys - especially post-Cisco buyout are the best bang for buck for most people. Cisco Aironet tech is the prize for the serious professional folk. Apple's new Airport Express is worth checking out too (esp. with the new 6.1.1. firmware) if you want a pure wireless network at home. My home network is a Linksys WRT54G and an Airport Express. The former is NAT router/DHCPserver 802.11b/g WLAN. The latter is used to stream music to the stereo from any of my laptops, and also makes my Canon colour printer a network printer instead of a boring USB one, so I can access it from any/all of my systems at once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mollox Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 I don't know what it is exactly but some routers can't quite get on with Xbox live. I have a d-link and it does some funky DHCP (or rather un-funky) which means it doesn't like running the Xbox and PC at the same time...for example Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BURTON Posted January 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 At the mo its via the PC which has the connection and I have to run a 7m crossover cable to the front room. I'll have to have abit more of a look around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiddy Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 Iv been running nothing but netgear for a good year or so now with not one single problem from any bit of hardware, 2xgigabit switchs, 1x DG834 router and 1x WG602v2 wireless access point all this hardware is on 24/7 non stop and the router is heavily used all day (ftp srver on it) and xbox live works with it just fine, the router has never had to be reset and i have never lost a connection (apart from when BT changed the cable to the house) the wireless access point goes over all the floors of my house with good signal everywhere, works a treat for my tablets wireless lan, and my ipaq to sync with my desktop, if you got windows XP with SP2 it makes it even easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BURTON Posted January 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 Very interesting..... Do like the Netgear stuff.... I want to get rid of my frog i have.. Was thinking of the DG834GT from netgear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mollox Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 Also, I know of a number of people who have had their DG834s (G & M) butt- by SP2 installs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BURTON Posted January 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 Really... damn it!! Why is nothing ever simple!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mollox Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 If everything were as simple as it should really be, no one would work in IT and the few that did would earn £4 an hour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BURTON Posted January 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 Sounds like my wage!!! Now what the hell do I go for!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 Go for the Linksys as recommended above or I've just upgraded my wireless to 3Com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 Don't make your network decision based on your PC operating system(s). Try and aim for one with open firmware, or at least a hardened Linux or BSD kernel as the firmware O/S (check out the SveaSoft website for turning your Linksys into an WLAN routing monster) If you want it to last, and be used by your friends too, you need to pick one that is O/S vendor agnostic - ie. it works with devices running Linux, Windoze, OS X, PocketPC, PalmOS, Symbian, PS2 etc. This is the reason I picked the hardware I've got (couldn't justify the $$$ for an Aironet setup at home) - and I use it with my 3 Windoze PCs, my PowerBook, my Sony Clie PDA, and my friends' various wireless capable laptops and widgets. Never misses a beat, never gone down, always the first router to register on the telco's monitoring software if they've had an outage on my area's backbone/hub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BURTON Posted January 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 Was just looking at 3Com there Daz!! Thanks RH! Also I want to try and get 108Mbps if poss! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiddy Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 hehe i dont have your average home setup though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 [ QUOTE ] Also I want to try and get 108Mbps if poss! [/ QUOTE ] Remember that wireless is a SHARED medium - so if you have a 802.11a or 802.11g network running at 54Mbps, there is overhead in the radio protocols, and the WLAN protocols, and the theoretical maximum throughput is for one client and one access point (so 54 may in fact be closer to 50). So a second client (eg another laptop) will suddenly potentially give you an average throughput of half the actual maximum, three WLAN connections will yield a third of maximum and so on. With current domestic WLAN hardware - it is, to say the least, "tricky" (nigh impossible?) to get bandwidth aggregation working (eg. 2x 54Mbps WAPs on two different channels), and a guaranteed exercise in frustration on a Windoze client. For a 100Mbit connection, or a 1Gbit connection (like my Powerbook) you still cannot beat cable - specifically category 5e or category 6 twisted pair... More so if the client connections are to be DEDICATED 100 or 1000Mbit. If you want a single WAP for the house to be 100+Mbits at the moment, you are looking at serious large amounts of $$$ and a fair amount of hardware above what you might expect. It also won't conform to the 802.11a/b/g standards. Good luck! WAP - wireless access point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mollox Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 She's scary, isn't she Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 [ QUOTE ] hehe i dont have your average home setup though [/ QUOTE ] No you don't! However in your previous reply you said: [ QUOTE ] ...if you got windows XP with SP2 it makes it even easier. [/ QUOTE ] So you're biasing your network to a client operating system. You should have said: "...if you've got a W3C standards compliant browser it's even easier!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 [ QUOTE ] She's scary, isn't she [/ QUOTE ] Am I? Really? As Scooby Simon isn't here replying, I'm wearing my Supreme Nerd Goddess hat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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