Belkin Retractable Modem Cable phone cable kit

Advantages: Reliable
Disadvantages: None

...Reliable and easy to use cable - a must for anyone making a home network or even a business network. Although Belkin have released a few inferior products in the past, this cable brings thenm right back up again. Category 5 cable such as this is the highest-quality UTP Cable. It is tested at 100MHz, allowing it to run high-speed protocols such as 100Mbps Ethernet and CDDI. Category 5 Cable also uses either 22 or 24 AWG unshielded twisted-pair wire and impedance of 100ohms. It connects with RJ45 connectors (avaiable cheaply) RJ-45 connectors look a bit like a standard phone connector but are twice as wide (with eight wires). RJ-45s are used for hooking up computers to local area Networks (LANs) or for phones with lots of lines.... Read review

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Advantages: works first time, gets you out of a tight spot!
Disadvantages: bigger than it looks on the box

..."I want to use your study as a studio", she said. And so started the Great Relocation (of sundry bits, bobs and paraphernalia which may not have seen the light of day in years!) from the study, aka "the room where the phone line lived" at one end of the house, to a purpose-built room at the rear, and at the opposite end, of the house. Now my trusty Zoom ADSL modem and USR wireless switch/router combo only just managed on a good day to push t'Interweb from the study (as was, or studio-to-be) through at least 4 walls to the new location - so relocating the family workhorse wired desktop Dell PC into the realm of the fully wireless was going to be a challenge. Step one was to minimise the amount of real-estate taken up by the ADSL feed into the house - from 2 bits of kit, amidst a tangle of cables on a desk in the study, down to one... Read review

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Advantages: Size, Price, Range
Disadvantages: Initial Connectivity problems

...This is a very, very good piece of kit IF you can get it to work! It has an in-built 'auto-connect' facility which seldom works and with the 3 networks I have had to install them on, it needed to be hard wired to a PC and connected that way (rather than connecting to the network as Belkin advise). For the price, you cant really grumble, especially if the alternative is installing messy CAT5 cable, or if that is not even an option. It has managed to extend my wireless range (from a Belkin G+ Router) by about 70 meters, with 3 large buildings in . If you can navigate your way around SSID and Security setting issues, it is a useful, and stable bit of hardware!... Read review

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