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MotherMayI

MotherMayI

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I am a wireless novice, I have always hated it. Every time I have had to live in a house with it I have made sure I volunteer to have the router in my room, so I can hard wire it :)

However, I am now living somewhere where it is unavoidable. We are currently using a cabled solution and its simply not practical (cable running through the whole house down the hall etc.).

So, I am finally going to have to make the jump.

My hatred towards wireless stems from the early days of it, where it never seemed to work properly, for anyone. That might well of been user error in some part, but not all.

Is wireless now an entirely viable option? I will be about 5m away from the router, through various walls etc. These are the parts I am looking to purchase:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-075-BE

For the router. And,

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-005-EX

For my PC. I run Vista 64 and Arch64 (Linux), and as far as I know there are no known problems with either of these 2 OS' and this card. Is there anything else I should know about?

The other computer connecting to the network will be a new iMac, which I am assuming will be entirely compatible to that router, or am I wrong?

Thanks for any help/advice :D
 
5m away? Just drill through the wall and pop a cable through. I would only use wireless if you really had no other choice (e.g. coverage outside).

If you do use it though, don't go with Belkin. Go for Netgear or Linksys.
 
netgear here again, only hassle was first time round it wouldn't accept my security settings, cleared it to factory and applied all the security settings and has worked fine since then, also got a free wireless adapter with my DG834N. Also I live in a 3 storey house and this still gets a strong signal from the top floor to the ground floor so all my apprehensions about wireless coverage were wiped out. However for a 5m distance I too would try a hardwire - I would still choose it where possible!
 
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