Wireless router recommendation

[noTHINGface]

Hey all

Well work are setting me up with wireless at home so I need to get a wireless router for my home machine. Im a little green behind the ears on wireless so could anyone recommend a 1/2 decent wireless router? Was thinking around £100UKP, something secure and reliable?

Cheers guys.

[nichomach]

You don't need to spend anywhere near that; are on cable or DSL broadband?

[noTHINGface]

Im on cable (NTL <shudder>) and as long as the router is 11g and VPN compatible then thats me happy!

[FunkyT]

Netgear DG834G (54Mbps) - about £60 from Ebuyer.

[Dav0s]

i second that, good choice, the netgears have some nifty little features built in

[Jonny M]

He's on cable, the DG834G is an ADSL router. The WGR614 is the version to plug your cable modem into.

[noTHINGface]

I got a Buffalo G54 Airstation in the end from Scan. Works really well. Thanks for the suggestions though gents.

[dangel]

Had some problems with my wireless netgear, my non-wireless much better...

[toadoftoadhall]

Setup a Belkin system for my xwife and son, dead easy to set up and works a treat. Must recc it as I had no problems and works fine. Router £50, pci card £25.

toad

[menthel]

I also have a belkin and it has great signal.

[toadoftoadhall]

son got an extra 20% signal just be moving the computer 2 feet. Now gets 85% strength from upstairs, brick walls, non of your plasterboard wall stuf.


toad

[Bob Crabtree]

Originally Posted by noTHINGface

I got a Buffalo G54 Airstation in the end from Scan. Works really well. Thanks for the suggestions though gents.

Update - it's looking like this was NOT a sensible thing for me to buy, but I'm still looking into this

I know this is resurrecting a very old thread but - just for the record (and thanks to noTHINGface's venerable posting) - I've ordered one of these today from Scan, too.

Thought it worth making this posting, cos I think a few people might be considering moving over to Virgin Media at the moment (even despite today's news about the tiff with Sky - Sky pulls its non-premium channels from Virgin Media cable).

If that turns out to be true, then some will also want to know what router to consider in place of the USB cable-modem that Virgin supplies as standard.

I'll report back here once I've had a fiddle - installation of Virgin broadband and the arrival of the Buffalo are both scheduled for March 7.

[Metier9]

Linksys WTG54, its something like that im not at home so cant check. You can also get a third party firmware for it to make it better . Supports VPN and b + g 802.11 standard

Im on NTL (Virgin Media) as well, nothing wrong with it unless you have to cancel or ring customer service(never done this). Uncapped dl amount is lovely .

edit: Mehh just saw the dates of the previous posts lol

[Bob Crabtree]

Treat me gently, please, because I'm now starting to think that the product that I ordered will NOT work on NTL without some other piece of hardware that makes the connection with the broadband.

This box, seemingly is a router but NOT a combined router/cable-modem, as I took it to be.

Aaaagh!!!

I've downloaded the manual and these sentences in the "Connecting your Airstation" section struck me in the eye:

1. Power down the Cable or DSL modem and the computer which will will be used to configure the AirStation router.

2. Plug the Cable or DSL’s LAN Ethernet cable into the AirStation’s WAN port. Initially, you may need to unplug this cable from your computer, hub or other router.

3. Plug the provided Ethernet cable into a LAN port on the AirStation and plug the other end into your computer’s Ethernet adapter (NIC). If you plan to initially configure the AirStation wirelessly (not recommended), you may skip this step.

4. Power on your cable or DSL modem and wait one full minute, then power on the AirStation router and wait one full minute, and finally power on the computer which will be used to configure the AirStation.

Helpful (rather than raspberry-blowing) comments much appreciated!

[Dreaming]

With NTL, they give you a cable modem plugged into the coax, you plug an ethernet cable into that and into your router, and away you go.

[Bob Crabtree]

Originally Posted by Dreaming

With NTL, they give you a cable modem plugged into the coax, you plug an ethernet cable into that and into your router, and away you go.

Thanks for that reply!!

So does that meant that if I have a router already (and I have a couple, one that is a Gigabit jobbie, the other that is a combined ADSL-modem router) I don't in fact need the Buffalo unit at all?

Also, I'm presuming that the cable modem is typically intended to connect to a single PC via USB.

Is that the case and, if it is, do I actually need to have this connection at all if I am using a router to connect this and other PCs to the cable-modem?