Hi All

I'm planning on setting up a wireless network at home for my PC, work's laptop and garage laptop - Emerald setup and datalogger.

I've been looking at this and I was wondering whether this would do the job? As it has LAN ports on it, could I plug this into my PC's network card - this would save me having to buy a USB wireless network card for the PC.

My work's laptop (brand new Toshiba) has an Atheros 5005G card and the older one has a ZyAir 802.11b PCMCIA card.

Anybody got any thoughts on whether this lot will work?

Regards

Wyn

Hi Wyn,

Looks like a rebranded BELKIN - should be fine!

You'll need to set the mode to 'LONG RANGE' IIRC on the Belkin as it's not enabled initially - well wasn't on the one I had.

It worked fine - occassionally gipped up when transferring more than 3-4gb

But should work perfectly for your requirements.

ALSO - if you get a bad signal - try messing around with the channels - I rang Belkin and they told me Channel 3 was the most reliable for some reason???

Cheers

Murray

It does look like my Belkin with a different case, even the part numbers are close !

Should be fine, only thing is do not expect the firewall to work, mine never has, asked Belkin who said.... hmmmm yes we are going to release a new version of software to fix that which I have yet to see on there support site.

On the plus side its been running for over 6 months, never required resetting and is very stable.

When you get going tie everything down with the MAC address filters and authentication, although it works straight from the box you do not want to be hacked !

Regards Mark

[Edited on 2/6/06 by mark chandler]

Thanks Guys - ordered!

It is a Belkin - hopefully I'll be able to get it up and running - I can then spend less time in here working!

Regards

Wyn