Complete Home Wireless Broadband Kit under £26 delivered

ashleyhorsley

The price has gone up again
But its now £29.99 so just add a 2m RJ11 modem cable which is 24p and then all you need to do is add delivery and you can get your £10 off

Inactive

More info here;

http://www.talktalk.co.uk/talktalk/servlet/gben-server-PageServer?article=MAIN.UK.TALKTALK.STATIC.HELP.MODEMTYPE

Spikey_2

Are the non-adsl routers any good..such as http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/117886?

cookie54

received mine today,I'm on talktalk broadband,but as a computer novice I have a few questions-At the moment we have 1 computer (looking to buy laptop soon but my son has a PSP to check if wireless works!!) can I use the data cable supplied to connect straight in the back off my one and only computer so effectively my main pc will not be wireless and then have a laptop(when i buy one) and boy's psp to be wireless-if this is the case do I need to use the free USB adaptor-just when i buy a laptop???
If this is the case do i just install the wireless router software not the USB Adaptor software

jeanna_2

i have one computer and want to do away with the wire for broadband. is this what i need. do you just plug it into the back of your computer? is it safe to use. sorry if i sound thick but don't know much about all this.do you get everything you need with it. thanks for your help.

tightrs

cookie54 wrote: »

received mine today,I'm on talktalk broadband,but as a computer novice I have a few questions-At the moment we have 1 computer (looking to buy laptop soon but my son has a PSP to check if wireless works!!) can I use the data cable supplied to connect straight in the back off my one and only computer so effectively my main pc will not be wireless and then have a laptop(when i buy one) and boy's psp to be wireless-if this is the case do I need to use the free USB adaptor-just when i buy a laptop???
If this is the case do i just install the wireless router software not the USB Adaptor software

i installed mine as wireless then i connected via the ethernet cable supplied and turned the wireless off as i like you have not got a laptop yet.

tightrs

jeanna wrote: »

i have one computer and want to do away with the wire for broadband. is this what i need. do you just plug it into the back of your computer? is it safe to use. sorry if i sound thick but don't know much about all this.do you get everything you need with it. thanks for your help.

if you get broadband through the phone line (not cable) then this kit contains everything needed the instructions aren't great but i managed and i'm a bit of a novice really

Bad_Syntax

jeanna wrote: »

i have one computer and want to do away with the wire for broadband. is this what i need. do you just plug it into the back of your computer? is it safe to use. sorry if i sound thick but don't know much about all this.do you get everything you need with it. thanks for your help.

Yes, the kit includes everything you need to go wireless and is safe to use
as long as you ensure that you change the default administrative password and enable WPA encryption.

This post by albertross explains everything you need to know about securing a wireless router.

Edited to add:

I just want to stress the importance of using a good strong password/passphrase. Although no security flaws have yet been discovered in the WPA encryption standard (unlike its predecessor WEP, which was so badly broken as to be next to useless) it is still susceptible to good old fashioned brute force/dictionary attacks. This means that a good passphrase is imperative. Ideally you'll want use the maximum permitted length of 63 characters and ensure that this string of characters is just a bunch of random gibberish consisting of upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols, such as:

?IGTPa_42nEM)~Cj,=AgTx+_J=C`QI61"_SZ.2\O`Gr:pKy".7%hf4(A:vs51l~

A good strong passphrase like this can be generated easily using an online generator such as the one located here:

http://www.kurtm.net/wpa-pskgen/

Once the passphrase has been generated you can save it and copy and paste it whenever the need should arise.

I personally use a free, open-source utility called KeePass to manage all of my passwords. As well as being able to generate passwords for you, KeePass will also keep them secure by storing them in an encrypted database.

veijoverde

ldvlon wrote: »

Maybe it's not the best choice after all: I have just bought a WiFi Router from FON for 40 euro + 5 euro posting (total 45 euro = £30).

I know it's a bit more expensive, but it's a great small router with a difference: it allows you to join the "Movimiento FON", which means FREE WiFi in tens of thousands of locations worldwide.

It does sound too good to be truth, but it's all based on the simple principle (and I quote) "It all started as a simple idea. Why should you pay for Internet access on the go when you have already paid for it at home? Exactly, you shouldn’t. So we decided to help create a community of people who get more out of their connection through sharing."

If you have a PDA with WiFi, or are out and about with your laptop, this can mean the end of paying for WiFi.

I think what you have described above is exactly what I want but I have no experience with Wifi at all. Can you please tell me what PDA is? I have a Sony Vao laptop which I use with talktalk broadband at home but I want to use it abroad at a site where I will have permission to use their Wireless Broadband. Is this the item I need to enable this and where would I find the item online please. Thankyou very much.

sarcen

btw I would add that wifi is not with problems, particularly if you live in a older house with proper walls. Also it uses the same range of air space that electrical equipment can leak into - therefore you can get interference from microwaves and motors on fridges etc. It is also the same range used by other domestic tranmitting equipment eg the wireless TV signal tranmitter. I switched to using wifi when i had to move my computer but found the problems where a pain. My main problem was that the USB wifi dongle on my computer seemed to overheat if left on for a long time and so my connection would drop or become erratic. A mate also used to use wifi and has dropped it use. He now uses ethernet over power lines which uses the mains power wires in your house with a special plug at each end and he is now very happy.

Myself I have now reverted to a wired connection and use the wifi for the occaisional use if I need to (for which I am happy with it).

So basically for day in day out use wifi is not as good as you may expect.

with respect to veijoverde

A PDA is a personal digital assistant - but you dont need to worry about that as that is just another type of small computer