My streak of converting girlfriends continues, and on Saturday my current GF will be the proud owner of a new iBook.
She wants to go wireless in her house, but can't get the Airport Express, since she will be sharing a connection with a PC.
I am a total noob when it comes to this stuff. I have always bought Apple's basestations, so i am in the dark when it comes to other wireless routers.
Can some folks here help out?
Looking for something reliable, something that is easy to set up, and will have no problem providing wireless access to the iBook and wired access to the PC.
My streak of converting girlfriends continues, and on Saturday my current GF will be the proud owner of a new iBook.
She wants to go wireless in her house, but can't get the Airport Express, since she will be sharing a connection with a PC.
I am a total noob when it comes to this stuff. I have always bought Apple's basestations, so i am in the dark when it comes to other wireless routers.
Can some folks here help out?
Looking for something reliable, something that is easy to set up, and will have no problem providing wireless access to the iBook and wired access to the PC.
Any companies to stay away from?
Any to reccomend? Model numbers please
Thanks!
I have a d-link 624 that have the actual router running a CAT 5 cable to my "old" pc. My Al PB 15" is running wireless off it with no problems (even when both machines are on)
I have the DLink DI-624 too. I'm pretty happy with it.
To be brutally honest, if you do anything "outside the box" with all of these home router devices you should expect SOME problems. They all have their shortcomings and terribly ignorant customer service people.
I've used Linksys, Dlink, Netgear etc and they're quirky.
It sounds like there is nothing too fancy that you need so I'm sure the DI-624 would be more than suitable. The best advice I can give is to find a router, do some research on it (the forums at http://www.dslreports.com are a good start) and take it from there. No matter which router you find, there will be people whining on DSLReports about it, so it'll take a bit of reading to find out of a problem is between the keyboard and the chair, a faulty device or an actual design issue.
To get the complete Mac "Experience" she should get the Extreme and connect it to a cheap ethernet switch. But if money is tight just get the cheapest third party unit you can find. In my opinion, they all work about the same. I had a good experience with a SMC wireless router that I bought for $30CDN as well as a more expensive linksys router.
To get the complete Mac "Experience" she should get the Extreme and connect it to a cheap ethernet switch. But if money is tight just get the cheapest third party unit you can find. In my opinion, they all work about the same. I had a good experience with a SMC wireless router that I bought for $30CDN as well as a more expensive linksys router.
Josh
I remember one of the SMC routers was released with a flaw in the firmware around the MAC filtering.
Instead of building a list of ALLOWED MAC addresses (ie - if you have 3 PCs, there are 3 MAC addresses you'd put in, unless you have multiple NICs etc) they expected you to build a list of NOT ALLOWED MAC addresses!!
A MAC address is 12 hex digits giving 281,474,976,710,656 possible combinations. So I'll just enter 281,474,976,710,653 MAC addresses shall I??
I've got a one mac, one pc setup and I've used an SMC barricade for about a year now. Never really gave me any problems... EXCEPT FOR WITH MY PC. hahaha
I just got a linksys WRT54GS and its working like a charm. much more stable than the smc on the pc.
Oh but if you're looking for a cheap router, the DLink wireless G one (forgot the model number) can be bought for around $50 from staples after you price match it with futureshop.
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