Wireless Gear

[NickFRP]

looking to set up my network to a wireless one. im looking at getting a BT wireless router from ebay. what speak though should i be looking at. of course im going to be using torrents and massive downloads

will 802.11g cope?

thanks
Nick

[ThePassenger]

NickFRP said:

looking to set up my network to a wireless one. im looking at getting a BT wireless router from ebay. what speak though should i be looking at. of course im going to be using torrents and massive downloads

will 802.11g cope?

thanks
Nick

11g is faster than any current broadband solution. So it will cope with the speed.

However Wireless and P2P applications don't generally play well together. Peer 2 Peer is just that, if your connected to say 100 people in a swarm then the wireless system needs to manage those 100 connections, add on top sufring, e-mail, more P2P activity and quite quickly the WiFi grinds to a halt even if your not using max speed. Also managing all those connections tends to spaz out cheapo routers, but other than rebooting one a day/week that's no biggie.

You'd be better off using a wired connection for P2P and then swapping to WiFi when your not downloading the latest Linux ISO.

[NickFRP]

hmm ok..

so 802.11G is the standard at the moment for wireless. thanks very much for the adivce. so then my Torrent PC will have to be cabled hmmmm.

But i dont have a phone socket in the room where my PC is. to get an ethernet cable it will mean me cabeling through the length of my bungalow... shit bags. time to think

[ThePassenger]

NickFRP said:

hmm ok..

so 802.11G is the standard at the moment for wireless. thanks very much for the adivce. so then my Torrent PC will have to be cabled hmmmm.

But i dont have a phone socket in the room where my PC is. to get an ethernet cable it will mean me cabeling through the length of my bungalow... shit bags. time to think

WiFi CAN do it, just don't expect brilliant results. Poking around I'd suggest your in 50/50 territory, it'll either work brilliantly or be dog slow and the only way to tell is to see what happens when you crank the beast up.

Ain't computers fun?

[jimmyjimjim]

Get a GOOD wireless router. It's mainly down to the gruntiness of the CPU of the router. I had a siemens router that would torrent for 5 minutes before locking up. The basic BT router was god for about 10 minutes. Dlink about the same. Never had a problem with the Draytek router, and we knoecked the hell out of the link with 5 clients merrily downloading 24/7.

[agent006]

Don't get a BT router, they're really bad. We've got a relatively devent one for our visitors' adsl line at work, and it needs restarting daily to keep it running OK. Netgear are good quality for wireless kit.

[bogie]

www.tomsnetworking.com/lans_routers/charts/index.html?chart=119

[mattley]

jimmyjimjim said:

Never had a problem with the Draytek router.

Slightly different price bracket, totally different class.

I've put loads of 'em in, excellent and well worth the extra in every respect.