Router for NTL

LoadsaMoney · 19 Sep 2007 at 19:40

My sisters got the NTL through the Tv set-top box, and she wants to put another PC upstairs and have it connecting to it wirelessly so she can use the net up there, so will any router work, or will it have to be one of those cable broadband routers ?

The set-top box is connected to her PC just by a normal USB cable, as the set-top box has got a cable thats plugged into it (which i think is connected by Ethernet) which then has this like little box on the end with a red light on, and the USB cable from the PC just connects to that.

Hope that makes sense to someone lol.

tolien · 19 Sep 2007 at 21:32

It'll have to be "one of those cable broadband routers" - an ADSL router certainly wouldn't be any good.

LoadsaMoney · 19 Sep 2007 at 21:35

Right thanks, any recommendations ?

tolien · 19 Sep 2007 at 21:43

The WRT54GL is fairly popular given all the third party firmware that's going for it, but there's plenty of others (that are popular and/or will run the same firmware). In part, it depends what you're going to connect to it - no point buying an 802.11n router if you're never going to use 802.11n adapters, for example.

I'd suggest reading the dozens of identical threads in this forum.

Richiev4 · 19 Sep 2007 at 21:58

Try this

Link

I have just bought one of these and its very good, also the help line is an 0800 number should you get stuck

Rich

LoadsaMoney · 20 Sep 2007 at 22:06

Thanks for the help guys, ill take a look at both of those.