RE: ADSL & Wireless Routers

["Ian Willoughby" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

Personally, I would go the separate route. You may not have a need for
file sharing at the moment but even if you only need to do it once or
twice then 802.11b can be a painful experience if transferring a large
file.

The additional benefits are that in the future if you choose you can
position your wireless exactly where you want in a network, as you add
file servers etc you may choose to add a second network card to allow a
VPN to be setup so that the wireless users can only get onto your main
network in a secure manner. Also you have too different types of
technology moving at different rates of development, shame to throw away
a good router because you need the latest wi-fi or vice-versa.


Regards
Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: Bricknell, Tony [mailto:tony.bricknell@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 24 June 2003 13:15
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] ADSL & Wireless Routers

BT say my exchange is to be ADSL enabled by the end of next month.
Yippee.

Thanks to earlier threads I already have a shortlist of ISP's and a good
idea of the recommended hardware.  However, being new to this, I'm
looking
around trying to understand what's out there/features/etc. and have a
question...

I've already quite settled on the Vigor 2600 range of routers...

But do I plump for a 2600We giving me integrated 802.11b WAP (to be used
for
web-surfing only - though network print-sharing may come in handy) or do
I
get the 'standard' 2600 and purchase a separate 802.11g WAP (higher
speed,
though can't see internet browsing using the increased bandwidth?)

ADSL service will only be a 512kbps home package.

TIA,
Tony


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