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[Raymanoff]

He afforded a 2 story house well, £40 wireless router + £15 Wireless Pcmcia card...
Why everyone is so stingy jeez??

[Sega]

Either go for wired, or homeplugs. I am strongly against wireless, the strength drop and the sygnal get weaker, hence it affects your download speed, which I guess is paramount if your online.

[Get Real!]

He afforded a 2 story house well, £40 wireless router + £15 Wireless Pcmcia card...
Why everyone is so stingy jeez??

A 3com or Netgear wireless DSL router for 50 pounds??? Rubbish!

3com or Netgear wireless PCMCIA network cards for 15 pounds each??? Rubbish!

And what about the labour cost to set all that up or did you assume he is a tech?

It’s not about being stingy and all about providing the right solution for the job at hand, something you obviously have no experience in.

[alexISS]

He afforded a 2 story house well, £40 wireless router + £15 Wireless Pcmcia card...
Why everyone is so stingy jeez??

A 3com or Netgear wireless DSL router for 50 pounds??? Rubbish!

3com or Netgear wireless PCMCIA network cards for 15 pounds each??? Rubbish!

And what about the labour cost to set all that up or did you assume he is a tech?

It’s not about being stingy and all about providing the right solution for the job at hand, something you obviously have no experience in.

NetGear WGT624=50 euros
NetGear WPN511 PCMCIA card=30 euros

[Get Real!]

He afforded a 2 story house well, £40 wireless router + £15 Wireless Pcmcia card...
Why everyone is so stingy jeez??

A 3com or Netgear wireless DSL router for 50 pounds??? Rubbish!

3com or Netgear wireless PCMCIA network cards for 15 pounds each??? Rubbish!

And what about the labour cost to set all that up or did you assume he is a tech?

It’s not about being stingy and all about providing the right solution for the job at hand, something you obviously have no experience in.

NetGear WGT624=50 euros
NetGear WPN511 PCMCIA card=30 euros

IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g

Does that work to cover a two-story house?

Legacy 1997 2.4 GHz 0.9 Mbit/s 2 Mbit/s ~20 Meters ~100 Meters
802.11a 1999 5 GHz 23 Mbit/s 54 Mbit/s OFDM ~35 Meters ~120 Meters
802.11b 1999 2.4 GHz 4.3 Mbit/s 11 Mbit/s DSSS ~38 Meters ~140 Meters
802.11g 2003 2.4 GHz 19 Mbit/s 54 Mbit/s OFDM ~38 Meters ~140 Meters
802.11n June 2009[2]
(est.) 2.4 GHz
5 GHz 74 Mbit/s 248 Mbit/s ~70 Meters ~250 Meters
802.11y June 2008[2]
(est.) 3.7 GHz 23 Mbit/s 54 Mbit/s ~50 Meters ~5000 Meters

sorry, that was meant to be a table but came out crap...

[cyprusgrump]

802.11g is great when it works but a complete pile of cack when it chooses not to in my experience.

As I said in my earlier post, the steel in the reinforced concrete of a typical Cypriot home does strange things to the signal making it a bit of a lottery if yiou want it to work in different rooms and extremely unreliable between floors.

Plus you have to secure your signal to make sure that your neighbours are not leeching off it.

Much better IMHO is to hard wire the first PC straight into the back of the router and HomePlug via the mains into the back of the other – bish-bosh a guaranteed reliable connection.

[danger-mouse]

MillieMoo I have practically the same set up in my house, like one of the previous posts suggested its unknown wether the wireless router will be able to have a good connection to your laptop downstairs due to how houses in cyprus are built. I suggest you also buy a signal booster which definately will help the signal to your laptop downstairs and its not that expensive either.

[milliemoo]

Thanks. at least with a laptop you can move it about and hopefully even if it doesnt work downstairs it might work upstairs and the two of them can use it simultaneously.

seems also that at the moment cyta are using wireless enabled modems and will set it up so that both computers can access the internet which is very good news.

fingers crossed for tomorrow which is the big day!!

millie