New2Computers
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I currently have IDSL (144/144) ... expensive but the only broadband available where I live... until now.
I received a banner in the mail from my cable company that I'm now able to order their broadband service.
My home has 2 laptops and 2 standard pc's and they are spread all over the place...
So my first thought was WIRELESS NETWORKING! I would much rather pay money then run lines all over the place... unless of course it is really unreasonably priced :disgust:
I was on Pricewatch and started to look at prices for wireless routers and network cards etc. when I realized the network cards I was looking at that already cost 4x as much as a standard card seem to be only notebook compliant.. and from what I saw the only means to hook up a stantard pc to the wireless network was through a USB adaptar which were running at $100 each. I also saw PCI adapters for the notebook nic cards that were running around $50. I was thinking there has to be a better way then buying a $100 nic card for 4 computers and then being forced to buy $50 adaptars for two of them on top of the wireless router that seems a bit much.
I was looking at Linksys parts (I'm pretty sure they are one of the better networking hardware companies?) and was considering the BEFW11S4 for the router.. as for the cards the WPC11 and then the adaptar to work in the PCI slot was WDT11.
I'm hoping there is a better way to do this... don't they just sell pci wireless network cards? Any suggestions? Anything I'm completely wrong about?
I received a banner in the mail from my cable company that I'm now able to order their broadband service.
My home has 2 laptops and 2 standard pc's and they are spread all over the place...
So my first thought was WIRELESS NETWORKING! I would much rather pay money then run lines all over the place... unless of course it is really unreasonably priced :disgust:
I was on Pricewatch and started to look at prices for wireless routers and network cards etc. when I realized the network cards I was looking at that already cost 4x as much as a standard card seem to be only notebook compliant.. and from what I saw the only means to hook up a stantard pc to the wireless network was through a USB adaptar which were running at $100 each. I also saw PCI adapters for the notebook nic cards that were running around $50. I was thinking there has to be a better way then buying a $100 nic card for 4 computers and then being forced to buy $50 adaptars for two of them on top of the wireless router that seems a bit much.
I was looking at Linksys parts (I'm pretty sure they are one of the better networking hardware companies?) and was considering the BEFW11S4 for the router.. as for the cards the WPC11 and then the adaptar to work in the PCI slot was WDT11.
I'm hoping there is a better way to do this... don't they just sell pci wireless network cards? Any suggestions? Anything I'm completely wrong about?
