What di need to buy (Network related)

Originally Posted by Jock

Dont even know if this is possible but can you connect a wireless router into your wired router since it has like 4 slots in the back?

The wired one to deal with the pc and the wireless for everything else?

Just hook the Linksys WRT54G into the existing Router i believe.

Wouldnt it just be easier to have the one router for everything?

You can still run wired for your pc from the linksys and wireless for the wifes at the same time.

I know that would probably make sense but the only reason i wasnt keen as i dont really know what im doing when it comes to setting up routers so i thought if i get another one i might have loads of problems like ive had in the past but i may just have to bite the bullet and give it a try. Might try and pick myself up a wireless linksys and see if i can get it to work, and if not theres always ebay i suppose.

I suppose if i copy all the settings for my current router then maybe i'll get lucky and it will be as simple as putting the information back in the new router.

If so can anyone recomend a good wireless linksys? Only reason linksys because then even the settings page should be similar.

If i buy a Linksys WRT54G can i replace my wired router with this or can it only be used as an access point?

I'm looking on ebay to try and get one though would have probably prefered a new one but no one seems to sell them, like ocuk and scan.

Yep you can replace your current one with this and run a wired connection from it as well as having the use of the wireless. I set up mine to use the laptops mac address and it was easy enough. Its probably the only Router i have ever used that seemed really easy to set up. The reason i said you could use this to connect into your other router was that i assumed you wanted to keep using the current one, but you can use the WRT54G to replace the old one and use the new one for both wired and wireless connections. I think you may be surprised how good the wireless conection actualy is on this router though.

Yeah i did want to use the existing one but i'll give this a bash first by itself, and who knows maybe i'll get it working no bother.

I have a wired only router connected to my modem. I also have a wireless connected as an AP to the wired router. The only thing i had to do is set the security details of the wireless router, it auto detects that it is an AP if you plug a network cable to one of the lan ports of the wireless and the other end in the rouiter connected to the modem. The only 'hard' thing was to figure out the way to set up the wireless. It is best done by cable. I connected my laptop to 1 of the lanports in the wireless router. Set my laptop to have internet (which it didnt, bacause the router was not connected to anything but my lapper). I was able to browse to the setup page (192.168..). set up WPA2 and allow mac addresses and stuff. Connection mode was auto, but ou could set it to AP. depends on the router

Code:

 -||--Modem------WiredRouter-----PC
                       |
                       |
                Wireless AP    )   )  )  Laptop

With this set up i even can power down the wireless part and still have wired connection to my pc.

There's an alternative solution, if you have a spare PCI port in your PC and the will to power on the PC when you want to use wireless. Some wireless PCI cards have an access point mode, so that means you can connect your PC to the wired router via ethernet, and have the laptop's wireless internet routed through the WLAN card in your PC. This would save you from buying a new router and configuring it, which as you say is a veritable minefield of confusing settings and pedantic little errors. Albeit, I'm not sure what kind of performance one can expect versus a traditional wireless router setup.