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[AL-Benjamin]

Well, we're moving house again and as such i need to network our new house which means its time to play

What i thought this time was that rather than stringing cat5 cables all around the house i would have a bit of wireless networking. I use wireless at work all the time but they tend to be base hubs for 500+ users.

Heres what i'm looking at.

A Lynksys wireless (802.11g) adsl modem and router (WAG54G-UK) directly connected to the adsl jack. That will have a cat5 conection to the hardwired network (servers etc)

The wireless network will run the two laptops (PCMCIA wireless cards).

Also there will be the family pc on there using a PCI wireless card as well as a new wireless enabled printer for general use.

So what do people think? any suggestions from anybody more familiar with the home wireless networking scene? too wireless heavy?

[kjmz]

Well wireless routers usually can hold I think its 254 users or somewhere around there. Its a pretty good wireless setup. I recommend just getting the cheapest one. They all work good but make sure it has the right specs. Also you might need a print server.

[MDJ2000]

I could go on for hours about wireless in Enterprise, but for home use, there's nothing wrong with your suggestions.

Just don't expect to burn any CDs from remote drives and you'll be fine.

[AL-Benjamin]

thanks for that guys.

in regards to the cds thing, i think i would be able to burn at same speed, just not at full burn speed. however i think i would probably transfer the files to the burn pc then copy them.

although all my pc's have dvd rw so no real need for any of that. the network is mainly for internet sharing and data storage.