aawasthi001
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We have cable internet at home, all my kids have a PC in their room, and would like to have their own connection. (Each room has a cable and telephone outlet.) Presently the modem is in my home-office PC and that is the only source of internet at home. Are there any product(s) that'll make internet available in all the rooms? I've been suggested to buy a router, but that means I have fish wire in all the rooms. Need a better solution.
I've been told that Intel has come up with a unit that goes with main electric board in the bsmt and that'll turn house into "intelligent" house, thus the whole house will be networked....
What about wireless? Does it work in a house? Do you recomment it? Any preferred vendors?
need your help.
I've been told that Intel has come up with a unit that goes with main electric board in the bsmt and that'll turn house into "intelligent" house, thus the whole house will be networked....
What about wireless? Does it work in a house? Do you recomment it? Any preferred vendors?
need your help.
edmonds_robert
To be perfectly honest, the best solution is probably exactly what's already been suggested. Get a router and run the cable. Here's why. You can get a router and the cable fairly cheap, and it's not that hard to install. Wireless probably won't work as well as you'd like in your house because of the walls. It's really meant for a more open environment. Besides that, if you do wireless, you still have to run cable to wherever the wireless access points are located. And, they will have to run back to, you guessed it, your router. The access points only do bridging, so the router is still going to be needed to connect your home network to the internet. You'll save a lot of trouble just getting a router to share the internet connection.
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I just wanted to add, you could get a cable splitters and split out the cable for the cable modem so you run to each room, however, 99.9% of all cable ISP's limit you to one ip address and sometimes, but not always, it's assigned to you by the MAC address of your network card. Personally, I would do what Scraig84 says and just go wireless if possible.
Most cable providers give you the box to hook to your PC via e-net. You can then eNet your rooms together.
That said, I concur with edmonds_robert.
LinkSys is inferior product. I have heard too many stories from people who either couldn't get it to work, or how it works one day then fails the next, but they'd need a day or two to troubleshoot... then replace with alt mfr.. other than that (cheap flimsy vendor) I agree that there are many of-the shelf products to build up your own design, but that you'd be running more cable anyways. So you may as well just do it well up front, as if running speakers in every room for the same stereo system.
IMO the WAP stuff is more applicable for when each of your family has a laptop that they like to use in their lap, when in a comfy chair, sofa, bed,, as opposed to desktop that is less mobile. Were your spouse to request ability to use laptop at dinner table, in living room, in bedroom - to carry it around house and still have it networked, then fine, wireless is suited there to maintaining the happy family.
That said, I concur with edmonds_robert.
LinkSys is inferior product. I have heard too many stories from people who either couldn't get it to work, or how it works one day then fails the next, but they'd need a day or two to troubleshoot... then replace with alt mfr.. other than that (cheap flimsy vendor) I agree that there are many of-the shelf products to build up your own design, but that you'd be running more cable anyways. So you may as well just do it well up front, as if running speakers in every room for the same stereo system.
IMO the WAP stuff is more applicable for when each of your family has a laptop that they like to use in their lap, when in a comfy chair, sofa, bed,, as opposed to desktop that is less mobile. Were your spouse to request ability to use laptop at dinner table, in living room, in bedroom - to carry it around house and still have it networked, then fine, wireless is suited there to maintaining the happy family.
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