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"Network question"

Right, broadband being installed next Tuesday.
And despite me paying for it, ma has insisted she needs it on her computer for work. Yeah, because reading emails and online chatroom sessions with her students requires broadband huh?

So what's the easiest way to set up a network?
Somebody talked about a router that the broadband will be fed into and we go from there?
Wireless? Cable?

Somebody that knows, some advice would be appreciated before I get extremely annoyed with this whole situation and refuse to pay for it simply to spite her.

Tyla wrote:
> Mode wrote:
> Cables are more reliable, well for the time being.
>
> That's the funniest thing I've read all day

For an Ad-Hoc network.

Mode wrote:
> Cables are more reliable, well for the time being.

That's the funniest thing I've read all day

Daveus wrote:
> monkey_man wrote:
> Wireless way too expensive - you'll be looking at over £100
> just
> to play computer games online! Cheap router, cheap cables,
> £30
> tops.
>
>
> Cables are ugly!

Cables are more reliable, well for the time being.

You sure she'll have enough bandwidth left to send her e-mails etc, with all those episodes of "My First Sex Teacher" you'll be downloading??

monkey_man wrote:
> Wireless way too expensive - you'll be looking at over £100 just
> to play computer games online! Cheap router, cheap cables, £30
> tops.


Cables are ugly!

There's an Xbox Live FAQ that I wrote with lots of links to routers and stuff. Just replace Xbox with PC and it still all applies.

It covers the different routers for ADSL and cable, wireless etc.

Wireless way too expensive - you'll be looking at over £100 just to play computer games online! Cheap router, cheap cables, £30 tops.

Indeed. Cheap cable router if all PC's/consoles are located in close proximity, or a Wireless system if they're far apart.

Get a cheap router for about £20-30 from PC World (or SR, if you must), which will allow you to plug up to 4 devices via ethernet cables. Very, very simple. Bit like me really.

A router is a simple answer - one cable from phone socket to router, and then cables from router to each possible destination - a PC, another PC (possibly), and/or an Xbox/PS2 for example.

However, if said destinations (my word for it) are a long way apart, or you hate cables, a wireless system would be better - requires cable into router and then some sort of 'bridge' - I'm not so sure how this works, as I simply have a cable........but somebody will answer.