Author Topic: Router or ADSL Modem...? (Read 18361 times)

Lona · « **Reply #15 on:** August 31, 2006, 14:15 »

Don't be daft Simon. Cancel your order. My friend, who is a pc numty managed to set up her router with little fuss.

Just think, you might decide to get yourself a laptop and you can set up a wireless connection using your router.

Simon · « **Reply #16 on:** August 31, 2006, 14:55 »

Too late - it's arrived!

Clive · « **Reply #17 on:** August 31, 2006, 14:59 »

:argh:

Lona · « **Reply #18 on:** August 31, 2006, 19:53 »

Quote from: "Simon"

Too late - it's arrived!

Chicken

Simon · « **Reply #19 on:** August 31, 2006, 20:55 »

Well, I think there's a deeper issue here. I was trying to repair an old PC belonging to a friend this afternoon, who inadvisedly installed AOL, and now it doesn't work. I connected my usual ADSL modem to this old PC, in order to get Windows Updates, download Firefox and install and update a new security suite, and I was getting speeds of up to 5.8Mbps, with the same modem, on that old machine! Now I am connected back on my own PC, I am only getting 2.7Mbps. I have also tried the new modem on my PC, and it managed 3.0Mbps, but where's the rest of my speed gone? I can't really blame Pipex or BT, if speeds are up on one machine and down on another. I can only assume there is something adrift with my network settings, but I don't really know what I'm looking for. I have tried TCP/IP Optimiser, but it made no difference. I'm stumped.

Lona · « **Reply #20 on:** September 01, 2006, 01:47 »

Could be your phoneline Simon. Maybe your friend lives in a different area??

Simon · « **Reply #21 on:** September 01, 2006, 09:33 »

No, I had the machine here, Lona, next to mine.

sam · « **Reply #22 on:** September 02, 2006, 09:49 »

ummm, you dont have any firewalls installed that could be slowing the whole thing down do you? how different is your setup to your friends...

also did you install a new driver for the device on your friends machine?

Simon · « **Reply #23 on:** September 02, 2006, 13:28 »

Same firewall on friend's PC, Sam, in fact, I installed it at the same time as installing the modem. I used the original CD, so the drivers are the same as on mine, and they have not been updated according to the website. I have just been finishing off the friend's PC, and again, I am getting 4.8Mbps on that one, and have just come back onto mine, and back to 2.9Mbps.

sam · « **Reply #24 on:** September 02, 2006, 14:12 »

umm...

Delgado · « **Reply #25 on:** September 04, 2006, 20:14 »

Ive been reading this topic with interest, and have often thought about a Router, however, Ive got no clue as to set up or connect it to my PC.

If you dont connect to USB port, where do you connect it?

:?: :?:

sam · « **Reply #26 on:** September 04, 2006, 20:29 »

rj-45 connection normally.. it is commonly called the network port, similar in shape to modem cable and is normally near your usb ports.

Simon · « **Reply #27 on:** September 04, 2006, 22:01 »

Well, as I have still had no improvement on my connection speed, I have taken the plunge, and await delivery of one of these, purchased new off eBay for a shade over £40. Like Delgado, I'm wondering how it actually connects to my PC, if not via USB. I don't have an RJ45 port, other than in my 56K dial up modem. Does this mean I will also have to buy some sort of network card?

sam · « **Reply #28 on:** September 04, 2006, 23:20 »

you have a modern computer that doesn't have a network card? sounds a bit shocking to me... anyway, yes you will have to.. and to buy the cables but these can be picked up rather cheaply.

Simon · « **Reply #29 on:** September 05, 2006, 00:07 »

I built the computer myself, Sam, and at the time, didn't need a network card, so didn't install one.

I'll wait till the router arrives, which should be tomorrow. According to the info on eBay, it has everything I would need, but whether this includes a network card, I have yet to find out. What about a USB wireless network adaptor, like this one? Would that do the same thing?