thanks for the input, well ill find out in a few days weather or not i can do this, ill probabaly end up here again, asking about a setup question lol alien: those are probably the biggest antennas ive seen ever..hey!, you have the same modem i have!...
My friend has the same setup man. THE EXACT SAME lol. I set it all up for him and his grandma (he lives with his grandparents) Its simple to do all you have to do is hook up the router like normal. You can also have 4 wired pcs hooked up to it. I hardwired his grandmas PC to it since it was right next to it and then he bought 1 of the usb receivers like in your picture for his room upstairs (so he didnt have to run wires) Then all that was left to do was to plug in the USB receiver and install the driver off the cd that comes with it. here in the states I got both the router and the USB receiver (same as your pack but I had to buy them seperate for him) and it came to just over 100 USD. This was over a year ago though. The wireless is easy to set up and works ok but it is slow compared to it being wired. The only real problem with it is that it cuts out sometimes randomly and he has to restart his PC to get it working again. This seems to be caused by Truck cbs since we live within a mile of a major truck route. Hope this pararaph helps you out some if you have more questions on it please let me know and I will see what I can do for you. Over all its not a bad little setup but I prefer it all to be hardwired. ;-)
What about security wise ? Since if I recall correct, it is very easy to hack into, and be a part of the wireless network, if the security hasn´t been configured correctly....
ill difinatly be changing it regualry, but im pretty sure 80 year old neighbours, dont drive by with their laptops and an attena....... Ryan
I have that one, and I never got the damn wireless stuff to be recognized on my computer! (This was on my crappy computer, and Im not even going to try on my new computer if wired is better.) I just use the router that came with it for other stuff. Its filled to the brim with wires, so we might need another router just in case we get more junk.
If you need to add more wired ports, connect a hub or a switch with an uplink and save yourself som cash - you don't need another router to add ports. I don't bother changing my pass key, but I do enable MAC filtering - basically means you have to change the unique identity of your computer to one which has been authorised on the network if you want to be able to access it. By which time you will have given up and found someone who hasn't bothered....
I dont think we need a hub at the moment. We dont have any more things that require to connect right now. XBL is a tad slow sometimes, but It goes faster when I disconnect my PC from the internet. My connection is fast anyway. About 1 or 2 seconds a page, and its wired. The only bad thing about wired is that the cables are kind of expensive and my dogs like to chew wires. We just recently got a Cable connection so that might have something to do with how fast the internet is, also. If I got the HDD add-on and a computer connection thing for my PS2, would I need a hub or could I simply change the Lan wire from my Xbox to my PS2?
I have the very same router but without the speedbooster (along with a second wired linksys router). I've never had any problems connecting to it wireless or wired. The great thing about the WRT54G is that because linksys released the source code to its firmware, many coders have created 3rd party firmwares that allow extended configuration options like boosting power to the antennas and having IPv6 support among many others. I configured my WRT54G as a switch/access point instead of a router by changing the WAN port into a regular LAN port which means it is now a 5-port switch instead of a 4-port router-switch. The other router handles my WAN connection and Xbox LAN connections in my living room. Works like a treat and I haven't had a dropped connection yet.
Nope, I'm talking about the Wireless-G Adapter. http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/x/xboxwirelessadapter/default.htm
Shame we don`t get those in the UK :-( Would look quite nice next to a green or clear or blue or white or clear black machine Suppose you can still use those for a 360 as well?
I think the Xbox 360 has wireless LAN built into it, well the tech spec said that a 6 months ago. Apparently it supports 802.11a/b/g. Is that right or am I nuts? I haven't played a new Xbox 360 yet so excuse the daft sentence above if it's complete poo!
