PC wireless connections....confused???

Liverbird

I am with Telewest broadband on their 1meg broadband....shortly to be upgraded to 4meg.
I give them a call yesterday after seeing their advert about making a wireless connection to the internet with my pc. Their adviser told me the kits they sell to do this can only be used with a 1 meg speed, so will be no good to me when its upgraded. Is there any kit out there that will allow me to make it wireless with 4 meg??

danmed

You've been spun a yarn (imo)
wireless access runs at 54mbs or 108mbs, your broadband will run at 4mbs.. to break this down further.. you will be able to download fromthe internet at 420k per second.
your wireless will let you transfer data at up to 4mb per second or 10mb per second (ish - often varies due to signal strength etc). I use standard wireless on 3mb broadband with no problem. I know people runnign 8mb on wireless with no issues what so ever.
Unless they have some proprietry hardware you must use then i would just buy a standard wireless cable router from ebuyer.

BenL

The person at Telewest was sort of right but didn't listen to your circumstances.

I assume you have a cable modem (scietfic atlanta or Motorola usually)

Just get hold of a router, not an adsl modem router.

I have the same setup with Telewest and have a Netgear WGT624 I think is the model.

You'll then either need a wireless enables laptop, PCMCIA card for a laptop, PCI card for a desktop or USB wireless adapter for each device.

Plug the cable modem into the router.

You will need a wired connection between the router and pc on the 1st setup to configure and then it'll be ready to go.

The Telewest product they sell you for wirelessplugs into the back of the set top box and then sends a wireless signal around your house. The modems in the settop boxes can only handle 1meg where as the standalon can handle upto about 20 meg I think.

Ben