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Hi
I am planning to take a broadband connection and would like to have a wifi network at home. (Modem is being provided by my service provider) I plan to add a router to have a wifi network at home
Hi
I am planning to take a broadband connection and would like to have a wifi network at home. (Modem is being provided by my service provider) I plan to add a router to have a wifi network at home
I have a Centrino Laptop and a PDA which is also wifi enabled.
Want your help on following points
1. I want a basic wifi router and not a very hifi one which would be easy to configure and maintain.
2. I have heard that there are routers which let you configure the printer wirelessly to the laptop (How much extra it might cost)
3. Which one is the best in terms of speed of data transfer without draining out your pockets
4. As I have a daughter who is just above an year old, is it harmful for her (heard somewhere that wifi networks are bad for toddlers)
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3 Comments
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you have not said a big part, is it a adsl or cable (ethernet). for a adsl go for the netgear DG834G, very good and easy to maintain, well no maintaining necessary.
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I would check your isp may provide a router free. it will most likely be built into the modem but if they dont then I suggest linksys routers they are the most popular and you will find more tuturals online for a linksys then any other router and from personal experence I find they are the easiest to set up. netgear routers are flakey to say the least they seem to drop the connection alout and seem to have more problems with interference then other routers. Rember if you have a 2.4 ghz phone it will mess with your wifi if you are using wireless b or g because they run on 2.4 ghz wireless a runs on 5.8 ghz but i dont belive there are any pda’s that run on a most of them run on b. as for the printer dont wast your money on a wireless printer bridge just have the printer near one of your computers and share it with windows file and printer shareing
as for wifi being harmfull to your daughter well i dont think it would be that health for her to use the antenna as a teething ring but wifi isnt any more harmfull then a cordless phone or a cell phone. load wififofom on your pda its like netstumbler for pocket pc and do a scan there are probly 4 or 5 wifi networks crossing into your house already so where is 1 more gona hurt anymore.
people say wifi is harmfull to kids because it operates on the same frequency as a microwave oven but the microwave operates at over 900 watts the wifi router operates at under 1 watt thats like compareing a xray to a atombomb
it shouldnt matter if you have cable or adsl any standalone router should work with both
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what you want is a router that has as many frequencies as you can afford (802.11 b/g/a/whatever) they all configure about the same way, and do not use the cd unless you need to install drivers for the router…..its much better to configure it manually. As far as causing your toddler problems, the frequency that routers broadcast at are similar and very close to, the same as a 2.4ghz phone….its an ultra high frequency and some small children can actually “hear” the frequency being broadcast, it doesn’t cause any harm its just annoying, kind of like a low level ringing in your ear…….it equates to some cellphone ringers that are supposedly set to ring at a frequency that only children can hear (same technology different application) so let your fears be gone as the “sound” of the router is minor, and in the worst ccase scenario all you would have to do is change the frequency of the router to a different band if it causes disruption in your childs hearing. (some studies show that the standard 802.11a can actually be “loud” enough to distract from hearing other sounds).