[Leaplist] advice on wifi router please

[andrei raevsky]

One more follow up question:

I was shown a bunch of wireless routers yesterday and they were of different
speeds.  I was told that a "G" series is the fastest one which does not
require special wireless cards.  Is this correct.  Brighthouse will install
a 10MB/sec connection for me.  How fast are those "G" series devices?  Is
that what I should get?  If these are slower than the connection itself, I
could always connect one computer with a regular network card I suppose.

Thanks for any clarifications,

Andrei

On 7/18/07, andrei raevsky <raevsky.andrei at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Brian and Steve,
>
> How are wireless routers configured?!  I was at a Radio Shack yesterday
> and the manager told me that I can go online to a Brighthouse webserver
> which allows me to configure my router via the Internet.  Is that correct,
> or do I need to connect to the router via a local network and call up some
> http interface on the router itself?  Or do I need to connect the router
> directly to my computer and do it from there?  I have no win32 machines at
> home at all (have been totally free since 2000 already) so cannot do the
> latter.
>
> Right now I do have dial-up so if the Brighthouse tech connect the NAT
> box/cable modem as they said they would, I could dial-up to the Brighthouse
> website and configure my wireless router like that I suppose.
>
> But how much configuration would I really need?  My (very limited)
> understanding is that the Brighthouse servers would give each machine on my
> home network a DHCP given IP address.  And for what concerns firewalling, I
> don't care what the box would do anyway - I run a firewall on each
> individual machine at home.  So what kind of configuration are we talking
> about?
>
> Many thanks for your help!
>
> Andrei
>
> On 7/18/07, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wednesday 18 July 2007 06:41, Brian Rose wrote:
> >
> > > I bought my parents a recent Linksys (non-Linux-able)
> >
> > Hi Brian,
> >
> > When you say non-linuxable, you just mean it won't run Linux as its OS,
> > right?
> > You don't mean it won't transmit to Linux boxes, or that it can't be
> > configured via the web interface by Linux boxes, do you?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > SteveT
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