wireless cable modem

SAM81

SAM81

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so ill be moving at the end of the month and have clld virgin to move my broadband service over. my gf will be moving in and she uses a laptop. currently i use a cable modem but im wondering if there are wireless cable modems that are available. the desktop will be connected by cable to the mode - she will be accessing the internet on her laptop via wifi.

are these available - can anyone recomned one?
 
right - so i need to keep my current virgin modem - but also buy a router? do i need to flash with tomoto firmware - what does this add?
 
+1 for WRT54GL and Tomato. You keep your modem but instead of plugging in your desktop to it, you'd plug in the WRT54GL instead. Then you plug your desktop PC into the WRT and the laptop connects to the WRT over wifi.

Tomato adds a great many features over stock Linksys firmware. Stability, speed, a nice web UI, real-time bandwidth monitoring graphs (in AJAX, very nice), QoS, and more options than you can shake a stick at. Personally I prefer Victek's Tomato, which is basically Tomato firmware, with the speed-mod addon incorporated, plus some extra contrack and TCP speed tweaks added on.
 
Agreed with the above.

I set up my mums NTL broadband a few years ago by means of the cable modem being downstairs, wired to the router I got via Cat5, then all the PCs and Wireless what-nots connected to that, also via Cat5.

Works a treat :)
 
There's no real need to flash a WRT54GL with any firmware unless you'll be messing around with the settings on it; standard firmware is fine for any basic uses you may throw at it.
 
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