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Hello all, let me begin with this, like everyone money is a problem for me. I've been looking at the Belkin N Wireless Routers and reading there reviews by C-net staff and the public users. Today I went into Target Stores and their BEST Belkin N Wireless router with 2 Antenna's was $79 and their middle rated Wireless N router with 1 Antenna was on sale for $44. I wish I had the Model numbers for you but Belkin has a (Better) (Best) (Good) rating. I think that the Router for $79 is $119 on Belkins site & the $44 is the $59 model. They both stand sraight up with antenna's on top of Router. Anyone have some advice???
Thank You
~Paul
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Not sure, I use a linksys router and a netgear access point. 80211n access points are, imho, overrated. The problem is that a n access point will automatically drop and stick to lower rated g or b speeds as soon as a g or b client connects to it. For example, if your wifi card is a 80211n adapter, you will get n rates on your local network when transferring files. But if have 3 systems and the other has a g or b adapter, then the access point drops and stays at the lower speed.
80211n access points may give a slightly wider connection range, but you can take any g access point and use upgraded antennas and have a far wider range than any n access point.
Hi TonyT and thanks for answering me. I have a Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router Model WRK54G ver3 that I always have trouble hooking up. I have Comcast Broadband. I just thought that where N is the new thing in technology that G would start to be less and less usefull or used so I thought I would buy the N Wireless Router. I don't use a Access point. I have a NIC card in my desktop tower. So where my daughter and her laptop will be moving back home for her senior year at college she will need a broadband hookup to share the web with my desktop. Oh my word, me and the wife was so use to peace and quiet with her living away from home this year 4 will be my penance for all I ever did bad in my life LOL. Thanks TonyT.
~Paul
FYI, you do have an access point, it's built into the router.
Are you sure it's version 3? Linksys site does not show a version 3 of that router.
What kind of trouble hooking up the router?
To get the Linksys hooked up and working:
1. pull the power plug on Comcast modem.
2. shut off computer.
3. disconnect network cable from computer to modem.
4. connect network cable from modem to Linksys router WAN (Internet) port. (router not yet powered up)
5. connect second network cable from computer to router.
6. power ON router, wait 20 seconds.
7. power ON comp.
8. open Internet Explorer and go to this address: http://192.168.1.1
9. Login: username = blank (empty) password = admin (lower case).
10. set up router; enable wifi, etc.
11. turn off comp & router.
12. turn ON modem, wait 30 seconds.
13. turn on router, wait 30 seconds.
14. turn on comp.
Excellent Tony T, someone with easy to follow directions for my Linksys. First, it is a ver; 3, and its true that they never show a version 3. The only thing I'm thinking is that this Linksys 2.4 GHz Wireless-G Nework Kit for Notebooks. It has the Wireless Router plus it also has a wireless G Notebook Adapter that I don't need. It was a clearance model at Staples 2 years ago and it was only $29.95 for everything; Model #:WKPC54G. Box was sealed and I needed a Router so I bought it. It worked fine in beginning but then when my daughter went back to school I disconected the Router and just ran my Comcast with its Modem and my Dell desktop. I'm going to try now to follow your directions and see if I can get it (Router) to work (share Broadband connection) with my Desktop and daughters Laptop both have XP Pro.
Thanks my friend
~Paul
OK, if you had it working previously, then it should be just "plug & play".
The KEY is to turn OFF modem completely first. You see, the modem synchronizes with the cable company headend and associates itself with the MAC Address of the device it connects to, it this case, the MAC Address of the network adapter in your computer.
If hook up the router, it won't work, because the modem is still associated with the computer adapter. Thus you must turn OFF the modem to disassociate it, connect the router, connect the computer. Then turn them all on in correct sequence:
1. modem, wait until synces with cable company headend.
2. router, wait until synces with modem & modem synces with router.
3. computer, synces with router.
In this sequence, the modem synces with the MAC Address of the router.
A MAC Address is a unique identifying number of a network adapter or other hardware device. All adapters have such a number and are assigned at manufacturing per international standards.
TonyT, U R Da Man....I printed up directions and followed them exactly, thought I ******* up again but nope, its working..Thank you so very, very much Tony. Hopefully now I'm going to be okay. If I have to Re-Start everything again I'll just do Modem,Router & PC, in that order I'll re-start. When I brought up IE and followed the Firmware I get kind of lost but its working. I'm online so as soon as my daughter comes over today with laptop hopefully that will go on-line too.
Thanks
~Paul D.
Login to the router > Administration section > change router password. The default = admin and everybody knows that!
Wireless section > change SSID from Linksys to a unique name. example: DEPNET
Use some type of wifi security, either WEP or WPA-TKIP. But don't setup security until verify that daughter can connect without it. If all OK, then setup wifi security & password.
