Im thinking about setting up a wireless system for my laptop in my house...

Can anyone recommend a good router and wireless card?? I dont know **** about ratings and which cards have a better (faster) rating...I dont **** up and buy a card that has a slow connection speed...

 

I`m using a Belkin travels 700 feet,got it from best buy only like 50 bucks and work in the basement also. They have a step better than the one I bought for like 100,and it travel`s 1100 feet

 

Check out Linksys.

It's easy to set up if you don't know much and they have good range.

 

Get the linksys 802.11g setup ...

http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satel...VisitorWrapper

Do you already have a router?

 

No router yet.. I need a router and a card... So are these things all about the same speed..... I just keep seeing peeps talk about distance... Which Im not too concerned about.... I could have one that reaches 50 feet....

 

are you gonna have any hard wired computers to hook into the router too?

 

Linksys for sure.

 

I have linksys, works fine 75% of the time...


At times it disconnects and I have to re-connect...


Can be a pain but for the most part it works...

 

Dude, the Linksys set up is solid. I have wireless running between three houses on the same connection without issue. I think your right in my neighborhood, let me know and I can even come by and set it up for ya.

 

Cisco 1812

 

who's gonna buy a cisco setup .... unless you are like me and borrow it from work aahahahaha

 

Ive been having better luck wth Netgear, in the same price range as linksys.

 

i have a d link and i have no problems.

 

Actually airport is better then all that **** :-) but I guess if your a pc person Linksys is the easiest.

 

blah ... i'm not gonna get into my cisco schpeel - i'm biased since i worked for them

 

Linksy's is the only way to go. I had Belkin before, and it sucked, my brothers computer which is exactly below me just 1 floor down, could never get signal.

And we had a damn good network card. Bought a Linksy's router and that **** is solid, he always had 100% signal, maybe 90% signal on a bad day.

 

I would have to agree with everyone else Linksy's is a great way to go and it's cheap. Just my

 

I haven't been able to get my netgear work yet But I do like the USB card. Thats pretty sweet set up. My laptop came with a 802.11 card in it

 

FYI linksys is owned by Cisco..... but ya i have linksys setup at home its solid. make sure you setup up encryption.. youll have god knows who on your network........

"Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the global leader in Wireless and Ethernet networking for consumer and SOHO users."

 

I work at a help desk and I cringe when I hear DLINK....

Linksys and Netgear are always solid.

I favor a Mac address filtering and maybe filtered Wep ....

Only just because I'm lazy and hate to put in my security keys......