Wireless Internet for gaming?

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Unfortunately i cannot connect to the internet via wire. Is wireless all that bad?

Also, how much would i be looking at to buy a decent router, with good strength and reliability?

Thanks, Ben.

 

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I have a netgear router at the mo. My signal strength is low all the time and im forever getting disconnected.

 

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I have just switched from Wireless to homeplug. My issues were two fold and I think only linked to Vista.

1) I had to rely on the the native vista driver, which meant that every minute I was disconnected whilst it looked for a better signal. I could get round this by switching the zero configuration off through the command prompt or using Vista Anti Lag, but it was a pain.
2) The location of my router and my PC was such that although I got what looked like a good signal, it was in fact rubbish. This meant sudden phases of lag and mad pings in games.

I switched to homeplug, it took about five minutes to do and I am a happy bunny.

Can you explain how homeplug works?