Right, I know plenty about most aspect of PC hardware, but little about networking, especially wireless. For reasons too dull to go into here, my brother has ended up with NTL broadband in the sitting room, whereas his PC is in the front room, right across the other side of the house. A 40' Cat5 cable isn't really an option. So, as far as I can gather, he needs a wireless router, and a wireless card for his PC (a recent Dell desktop- Dimension 3100 I think it is).
The router won't need any fancy features beyond supporting some encryption so that people can't nick his card details or freeload his connection. Same goes for the card I guess. The only thing I was wondering was whether it's better to go for a USB2 wifi dongle or a PCI card. Although the comp has at least one spare PCI slot I'm thinking USB will be even easier, and more flexible should he change comps in the future. Any performance overhead is immaterial as he's a light user and it's a P4 521 with HT.
So, I'm hoping someone will make my life easy and recommend me some cheap but good products. If Scan sell 'em at a competitive price so much the better. Hoping to spend less than £50 but obviously will have to spend whatever is necessary.


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), and t'internet is working fine. So yes- I don't need a router with any kind of modem built in, as he has a functioning one.
), now appears to be working fine, and is now at a friend's house awaiting the arrival of an ADSL modem from Orange so said friend can enjoy the free broadband offered as part of his new Dolphin 35 package.
