Whats best PCI or USB

Davy644

Davy644

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Its for my sons Pc upstairs,I have the Belkin USB adaptor for my daughters room but at £44 a little pricey when i can get one just as fast 300mbs for less than half the price,Just thinking is it ok to mix and match all brands?
Thanks Davy
 
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FatRakoon said:
As long as the devices are compatible, ( b, g, N ) any brand will do yes.

For what its worth, my entire house is fully wired. I have the phone line in teh kitchen, coming through along the door of kitchen and living room , up the wall along the ceiling and down to the router... The Master PC is directly connected to the router, but so is a second CAT5 cable, and this follows back to the kitchen door but then that goes upstairs along the landing and up into the attic, where it is connected to my switch, this is then feeding 4 other PCs and a Hub, The other PCs feed into that, but one other cable then goes out of the attic, down the outside of the wall, and along into the shed for the kids.

Now, I have in total 13 PCs all connected by way of Ethernet cable and guess what?

You cannot see a single cable anywhere!

Its not built into the wall at all either, its trunking but again, its not obvious because its right int the corners and its painted over so its near invisible.

Im not wasting my time with crappy wireless... Id rather do without!
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Hmm" Switch" hey" where can i get one of those bad boys from? I already have 30mtrs of cat5 cable .. if i buy a switch I could plug both Pcs and my lads Xbox which will leave me with the belkin airless adaptor for a Laptop maybe "bound to get one for Christmas;)" sounds like a plan
Switch cant find them in the shop,
Again Thank you:):cool:
 
Am thinking:D Say the one you have is it this by chance
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FatRakoon said:
I just been looking on some auction site and I entered ETHERNET SWITCH and I found a fair few on there mate... None are Wireless of course, and since you only want a couple of systems connected, then most modem routers have 4 ports, so, it might not be worth bothering with a switch at all.
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Hi matey yes i had good look on there and would prefer it to be wired as my own Belkin devise is wireless and has very good range[/QUOTE]

You have 4 in total yes?
As follows .. PC1 Master Pc downstairs PC2/PC3/Xbox and maybe a laptop in the near future all up the stairs,The easiest way to do it is to move my router upstairs and connect All from up there as you say it has 4 sockets or switches at the back however i rather like to have it next to my PC

So, what modem / Router do you have now?Its a Belkin N1 which stays downstairs along side my Master Pc so i can see what my Daughters upto :o [/QUOTE] sorry had to rush this just on my way out to work Cheers
 
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