[Leaplist] advice on wifi router please

[Aaron Morrison]

Ok, Now we get to dive into the IEEE alphabet soup....

A good article can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11

But essentially, unless you want bleeding edge, get a "G" router.   
That will give you the best performance and compatibility for the  
widest variety of devices and most all "G" devices are backwards  
compatible with "B" devices.  Nominal speed for 802.11g is 54 Mbit/sec.

--am



On 18 Jul 2007, at 11:36, andrei raevsky wrote:

> 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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