I've been using your basic run of the mill wireless G router and adapter for the last 5 years. Unfortunately was a requirement in a new house I'm living in not to have to drill holes through the wall to run LAN connections, my loss. The entire time using wireless I get maybe 1 bar of signal strength and I've tried about 4 different wireless adapters on my computer and 3 different routers, including a linksys preN one. I've tried moving to a closer location and problems started happening then too, I'm only about 50ft away from the router and only get 1 bar. Problem was whenever you download something that uses nearly all the bandwith, 300k or higher for longer than maybe 3 minutes, it will kick you off the wireless. I knew this was just a problem with wireless and since I had no other choice I went out looking. I found this product called Powerline Networking, first time I've heard of it, not normally good reviews but I ended up giving it a try and I will say its a big big improvement over wireless. Pings in games are now just like lan connection and the internet is a whole lot faster. I have yet to get booted off after using it a solid week.
Basically what you do is one side you put near your router, it hooks through your wall power socket, infact it HAS to be in the wall, no power strip. You run your cat5 cable to your router and that sides done. On the other side you do the same thing but just into your network card. I didn't even install the drivers and it came right up after I disabled my wireless networking. The price is kind of expensive I got the 2 adapter kit for 130 dollars but I prefer it way over wireless, doesn't work in all situations but for me it was the best connection. I dunno if anyone else has heard of these but they aren't bad, made by Netgear, I think Linksys and Dlink make some too.
Basically what you do is one side you put near your router, it hooks through your wall power socket, infact it HAS to be in the wall, no power strip. You run your cat5 cable to your router and that sides done. On the other side you do the same thing but just into your network card. I didn't even install the drivers and it came right up after I disabled my wireless networking. The price is kind of expensive I got the 2 adapter kit for 130 dollars but I prefer it way over wireless, doesn't work in all situations but for me it was the best connection. I dunno if anyone else has heard of these but they aren't bad, made by Netgear, I think Linksys and Dlink make some too.
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