wireless broadband

victor-meldrew_4

Hi.new to all this so please forgive mistakes.
Currently we have orange wirless and talk broadband.we are nearly finished on a retention tarrif £60 for the year on their top package,not on our landline phone though as we have had it a long time and didnt need to back then.
We regulary get 7 meg speeds but also have very slow periods during busy times.
Question is we can put 6 wireless items plus 2 ethernet on our box,which isnt enough for us.
Whats our best option.does someone have routers with more capacity and good broadband.Is orange good and should we stick with them.is it possible to upgrade the router,easily ,?
What do you think,would like 8 ,at least,wireless access points.
thanks

penrhyn

You can have as many wireless connections as you like on a wireless router. There will be a practical limit but it is not 6.

totalsolutions

More ethernet ports can be purchased if thats what you want in 4/8/16/24/48 and higher units, called hubs and switches, Switches now being the norm.

Are you saying you have Orange and Talktalk ??

victor-meldrew_4

penrhyn wrote: »

You can have as many wireless connections as you like on a wireless router. There will be a practical limit but it is not 6.

The invetel/orange one only allows 6.others advertise less.so i suppose the question is if you use a router not supplied with you b/band will it be easy to set up/work?

espresso

victor-meldrew wrote: »

The invetel/orange one only allows 6.

Are you absolutely sure about that? The documentation does not say that. Have you tried to connect more devices?

victor-meldrew_4

espresso wrote: »

Are you absolutely sure about that? The documentation does not say that. Have you tried to connect more devices?

Yes absolutley sure 100%.to connect something you have to put box in pairing mode.if you have six items on you have to enter set up for box and delete one from your approved list.6 only plus 2 ethernet.
Yes is wireless and ta;k

espresso

victor-meldrew wrote: »

Yes absolutley sure 100%.to connect something you have to put box in pairing mode.if you have six items on you have to enter set up for box and delete one from your approved list.6 only plus 2 ethernet.
Yes is wireless and ta;k

OK, must be a peculiarity of the Livebox as most wireless routers will allow up to a total of 255 users to connect. Any of these routers here are suitable replacements if you want to replace the Livebox with a more conventional router. If you were to change your ISP, you would likely get a free wireless router provided.

victor-meldrew_4

espresso wrote: »

OK, must be a peculiarity of the Livebox as most wireless routers will allow up to a total of 255 users to connect. Any of these routers here are suitable replacements if you want to replace the Livebox with a more conventional router. If you were to change your ISP, you would likely get a free wireless router provided.

Ithink when i checked 02 or someone else mainstream they only had 4 available to use.
Thanks for the link.i will glady purchase one.WILL the isp allow it,is it straight swap/will it work?????
THANKS FOR THE HELP

macman

victor-meldrew wrote: »

Ithink when i checked 02 or someone else mainstream they only had 4 available to use.
Thanks for the link.i will glady purchase one.WILL the isp allow it,is it straight swap/will it work?????
THANKS FOR THE HELP

Yes, they don't need to 'allow' it, it's your system to do as you wish with. It's a straight swap and you just need to enter the basic info in that you probably did when you set up before. Any ADSL router will work on an ADSL broadband service.
The only thing to beware is that Orange may not support it if it's not on their approved list. So if you do get a problem it's no good expecting their tech support to help. However in my experience with Orange that would probably be no great loss...

victor-meldrew_4

excellent thanks