Adaptec Ultra Wireless Cable/DSL Router - wireless router

Advantages: Great connectivity and performance
Disadvantages: Configuring

...Not only is it a play on words (and a famous telephone company) but now it is a good way to describe a fantastic piece of equipment that no broadband home should be without. the linksys wireless-b broadband router. Yep, you budget networking buddies have supplied you with this great innovation. the ability to share your single broadband cable/dsl connection with up to 4 computers in the vicinity. I say vicinity as this is a wireless ready router. Hang on a minute andy.....what is this router thing. I liken it to mother cooking dinner. Mother is the router in this situation. The broadband connection is like a massive saucepan full of dinner and the children are 4 pc's around your house. Mother takes the dinner and divides it out amongst her 4 children , ensuring they all get some dinner and in equal proportions. That is what... Read review

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Advantages: High speed sharing of internet connection. Free on-line and phone help
Disadvantages: A bit tricky to set up for me at first..

...though they kept saying, "it's up to you mate, but we can put it downstairs and you can use a wireless router." That, I thought, would have meant opening my brand new computer and putting in a wireless PCI card. No way was I prepared to do that. I wanted my new machine to be wired and my wife's to connect wirelessly, so with a few sighs they set about installing the cable where I wanted it. After considerable furniture shifting in our bedroom so that the cable could be routed through it (no pun intended), we had our first connection and got it working. The very next day - I'm a glutton for punishment - we went out to look at some routers. The Belkin G router, is what the helpful assistant in PC World advised us to get as we were connected to cable broadband with NTL. Questions I had were, "will the wireless connection connect... Read review

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Advantages: Easily set up by a complete novice
Disadvantages: none

...Cable/DSL Wireless Router and a wireless adapter together for £30.00. NTL were offering a package for £99.99 so I felt this was a bargain. I followed the instructions and attached the router to my modem with the supplied ethernet cable and plugged it into the mains. The power light and signal light came on. I then installed the software from the enclosed CD on to the PC which had been moved upstairs and had no wired link to the modem. I plugged the adapter into a USB port and it loaded up and connected to the internet straight away. I then went to the Netgear website (address included in setup instructions that is particular to your router) and configured the router with their easy to use wizard which detects your computer and ISP setting for you. I am now using wireless cable broadband and have even bought another adaptor and put my... Read review

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