need wireless router with 108mbps wireless and 1Gbps lan

[weebroonieuk]

any other apart from the dlink one ?

[arthurleung]

Get a wireless router with 108mbps, then stick a GbE switch?

Thats what I do. You will be overloading the router anyway if you try to push that much traffic over your router on top of letting it to manage the packets.

[Trippledence]

Get whatever wireless router you want, Like a Linksys WAG54G or a cheaper one, it doesnt matter, then a serperate 1gb swtich just like arther says.

A mate of mine has http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=49712 switch with a WAG54G and its a really good combo.

[TheAnimus]

I'm a fan of A for lack of interferance over G, but i've mine hooked upto a gigabit switch, used to be managed.

As for bottleneck, performance on wireless is always so much less than 100base-tx, so i would do which ever is cheaper/convient/space rather than worry baout having seperates.

[weebroonieuk]

its not so much price i want to put a server up in the loft with a load of hard drives which will be always on

im eventually going to buy a new laptop and build a new pc aswell as have a media centre pc and another pc in the house

i want the fastest transfers between the pc's and the laptop will get equipped with a 108mb wireless card for quick transfers etc and for very large files i would just plug in an ethernet cable to save time(all depends on how fast my hard drive can wrtie tho....)

i think i probably will do as you all say and get a seperate router and a switch

how would this be connected and how easy is the setup ?

[dave87]

Plug and play really. The switch will auto detect, so no need for a crossover cable. Basically,


Wireless Card (laptop) -> wirelessly -> Wireless Modem/Router -> ethernet cable -> Gigabit Switch

If you use a separate modem & router, you just add an ethernet cable from the modem to the router, then the above from the router.

Hope this helps,

Dave