Hello

Well my current setup at the moment is:

Blueyonder Cable that goes into a smoothwall then from that into a HUB and then to a couple PCs.

I'm moving soon and want to have my internet wireless. So what I thought is could there be a setup like that goes like:

Cable goes into a smoothwall then from that into a wireless HUB that one pc and a laptop work off?

How much would something like that cost(just the wireless stuff not the smoothwall) and can you show me some links to where to get it.

Thanx

:)

What you want is a wireless access point. This plugs into your hub like any other PC. It also needs a power supply (all cables etc included).

This would let you get as many wireless connections as you wanted and is pretty easy to setup. I used a Netgear ME102 with no problems:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=23678

If you need more speed than 11mbps (approx 0.6-0.8megs/sec IRL) then you want to look beyond 802.11b but this gets more expensive. I only use wireless for my laptop and it has a wired 100mbit adaptor if I need to move a lot of files :)

HB

It would only be for the internet.

I was thinking also, is there something that could remove the need for the smoothwall but still offer the same level of protection?

Thanx :)

Yep, you can get a Netgear combination 10/100 (4 port) switch and wireless access point, like this MR814, which I have now instead: http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=47365

It's good but lacks the ability to forward port X (external) to port Y (internal). ie, if I want to get a connection to port 80 on any machine, I have to open port 80. Didn't know this when I bought it and it has caused me some trouble.

I suspect most others don't do this though :)

HB

Thanx for that!!! :D

So that will give me the firewall protection for my PC and laptop?

Will any wireless NIC (if thats what they're called) work with that?

Thanx again!

Would this be the correct one to get?

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=43353

Thanx