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My Wireless Home Network
If you saw my thread a week or so ago, you know I was having problems with my D-Link DI 604 router. Mainly, I was having problems with my Playstation 2 when I tried to host games online. Couldn't host most of the time nor could I connect to other users a lot of times. Needless to say, D-Link's customer support couldn't help. I knew I was in trouble when I knew more about what is a DMZ than the tech.
So anyhoo, I decided to upgrade to a new router. Despite the wonderful offer from Phil for his router, I decided to buy a new wireless router. Thought I'd share in case anyone is looking to buy a wireless router and didn't want to spend a ton of $$$. I bought this Xterasys wireless router from New Egg . Wireless router And this Xterasys USB adaptor. (for those that are new to wireless - like I was - this is the device you plug into your computer that communicates [wirelessly - duh ] with the router. You don't have to buy a USB adaptor. You could buy a PCI card Wireless LAN adaptor. I just went with USB because all my PCI slots are taken.) USB Adaptor This took me all of about 15-20 minutes to setup. That includes hooking up wires, installing on my wall, and setup on the computer. So far, everything works great. All this cost me $60 after shipping. Took about 6 days to get here. Last edited by Lzen; 01-14-2005 at 12:04 PM.. |
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01-14-2005, 12:03 PM | #2 |
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Not bad. I was never a fan of USB network adapters. It seems to me you are limiting throughput with it. Although, I dunno. I may be wrong.
BTW, if you are ever on I-470 and have a wireless sniffer you can pick up my network from the highway. Pretty neat, huh?
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Cool. I have a wireless router (Blitzz) that I have had good luck with. It works great with my work laptop, which is wireless (centrino, built in wireless i mean)
The only problem is that the wireless PCI card I bought for my PC makes the machine not boot. It's the wierdest thing. I installed all the software like it said, before installing the card, and I tried doing it the other way around too. Same problem. I tried downloading the latest drivers. I even tried blasting the machine and reloading windows and it still happens. That to me screams some kind of hardware incompatibility, or that it has a problem with the OS. But WTF would they put out a wireless card that chokes on Windows XP? I dont know what the hell it could be, I just gave up. Of course I lost the receipt already, and it was from Best Buy anyway where you need a letter from the president to return something. |
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Those two scenarios comprised probably 80% of the boots the afternoon I was working on it. Once in a while, you could get it up to the desktop and have control, but whenever I tried to screw with the drivers or do anything it would lock up again. No ctrl-alt-del, a real hard lockup. But, if you remove the card the machine functions normally. I figured the card was just a piece of Raiders and I would buy a different brand. |
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Cochise, it could be an IRQ conflict with another PCI card. Have you tried moving it to a different PCI slot?
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Ok. I had that trouble when I installed an audio card last year. Just switched it with another card and problem was gone.
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I'm going this route(pun intended) this very week, in fact. The upstairs(family) PC will be regular LAN cable out of the router(AirPlus G Wireless Router with 4 Port Switch), while my work machine in the basement will use the AirPlus Xtreme G High-Speed 2.4GHz Wireless PCI Adapter.
Buying both the router and card in about 3 hours. Pumped! Z
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