Wireless Broadband connections - a begginers question

"vrem" wrote in news:4262984f snipped-for-privacy@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com:

You can get a wireless router or you can get a wired router and a wireless AP and plug the WAP into the wire router. To me, you're better off with a wire router and a WAP as wireless technology is constantly changing while the old solid as a rock wire technology never changes.

You can also just get a wireless NIC and put into the machine that has the Internet connection and use ICS and AD-HOC mode on both wireless NIC(s) and share resources between machines and have the laptop share the Internet connection.

The choice is yours to make.

Duane :)

And just in case you don't know, ICS stands for "internet connection sharing", and is part of the windows operating system. Ad-hoc means that the network is peer-to-peer (no server; all computers are equal).

For a long time my computers were setup this way. The advantage is you do not need to buy extra hardware like a router. The disadvantage is that the computer which has the internet connection has to be on AND someone logged on in order for the networked computer(s) to use the internet.

Both ways tend to be easy to setup.

HTH Damase

can I suggest the linksys wag54g gateway, this has an inbuilt adsl modem, and wireless router in one package, there are others similar, but if you just buy the router you will still need to get a modem

cheers, Jim

Cheers for the replies. Very helpful.

Duane Arnold wrote in news:Xns963BBD47BAC99notmenotmecom@63.240.76.16:

This is true, but lately it seems that the routers are cheaper than the access points.