pc advice

Asty · Post by **Asty** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:04 pm

I'm moving house on the 28th and havnt got a phone line conection near where i'm putting the pc , but i do have the bt broadband hub. now the other halfs laptop is wirless and connects to the hub no problem , but my pc (only a year old an fairly high spec ) dosnt have wirless so my question is.....

1. what wirless would you reconmend i have 6meg down load speed and dont want to lose this speed
2. I presume the hub will allow 2 wirless connections ?

Thanks 8)

RX7 · Post by **RX7** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:25 pm

Where is the pc in relation to the wireless hub ? Same room , floor etc ? The further they are away and the more walls etc it has to go through the bigger amount of distortion you will get.

You should be able to get a wireless card for your pc which means you should connect to your hub easily enough.

The wireless hub will allow multiple connections as the pcs ip address is different than your wifes laptop.

Asty · Post by **Asty** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:32 pm

well the hub will be in the living room and the pc in the conseravtory , so about 30 foot i guess no walls either , i just dont really want to lose any speed 8) .

Post by **Ben** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:59 pm

By going wireless you can actually gain speed in some instances.

I use a Linksys hub which is 100meg hardwired - but 125meg wireless. I simply bought a compatible wireless card and hey presto all sorted.

TonyB · Post by **TonyB** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:41 pm

seeing as tho your broadband connection is only 6MB (I say that as it is nothing in wireless terms); Then the slowest commonly available wireless, '11b' 11mb/s, will not be a bottlenect on your network and will not slow things down. With this you would only notice speed when transfering files around the computers within the house.

The question is what your BT wireless hub supports: 11b, 54g, speedboost 54g @108mb/s, or the new wireless N. What model number hub?

I suggest you get a 54g network card for the PC, and if you are not happy fitting hardware, then a USB wireless adaptor would just plug in - 30 feet should be no problem for any of the above ;-)

54g is not much more expensive, 'N' is very expensive for what it is at the moment as it is new (officially the the design is not finished for it as a standard).

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/45602 - if you have a spare PCI slot inside your PC,

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/109708 - to go USB route.

HTH

Asty · Post by **Asty** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:44 am

Thats great thanks guys , the hub is the white bt fusion hub, 2FEB is all i can see on it , i have 2 spare pci slots so will get a pci card . 8)

Post by **Ben** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:15 am

That's what I did for my dad's set up on his BT hub - bought a G card... all works fine.