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| Thread ID: 87743 | 2008-03-02 11:14:00 | ADSL- Cable Router purchasing advice | Sick Puppy (6959) | Press F1 |
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| 645630 | 2008-03-09 10:47:00 | ALright then, did some reading and stuff, and I'm still having issues with the difference between a wireless access point and a wireless router (router seems to be a wireless AP as well as doing routing stuff?), a geekzone thread about routers on Telstra connections seems to recommend the Linksys WRT54GL: www-nz.linksys.com Things I'm curious about however, are: 1. Price- $200 in DSE, about $110-140 online (checked pricespy)? I realise DSE is a high street shop as opposed to online shops, but that is still a big difference- are the low prices about right? 2. Software- from the reading I have done I can see that G is the standard version, GL is the linux version enabling third party software modding. I'm not worried about the difference in price, but is the GL one more suited for Telstra/ wireless networking in general, and would it be easy to work with? I am willing to have a go, but am very new to wireless networking, and searching for componentry is a lot muddier than looking for PC's etc... thanks for your help! |
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| 645631 | 2008-03-10 05:12:00 | ALright then, did some reading and stuff, and I'm still having issues with the difference between a wireless access point and a wireless router (router seems to be a wireless AP as well as doing routing stuff?), a geekzone thread about routers on Telstra connections seems to recommend the Linksys WRT54GL: www-nz.linksys.com Things I'm curious about however, are: 1. Price- $200 in DSE, about $110-140 online (checked pricespy)? I realise DSE is a high street shop as opposed to online shops, but that is still a big difference- are the low prices about right? 2. Software- from the reading I have done I can see that G is the standard version, GL is the linux version enabling third party software modding. I'm not worried about the difference in price, but is the GL one more suited for Telstra/ wireless networking in general, and would it be easy to work with? I am willing to have a go, but am very new to wireless networking, and searching for componentry is a lot muddier than looking for PC's etc... thanks for your help! Depending on what version of the G you get it can have less RAM then the GL version, which for lots of torrenting can make a difference to your throughput. Also some of the third party firmwares you can get for the GL can give you lots of neat features like WORKING QOS, better firewall protection and many other things to help manage your bandwidth. |
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| 645632 | 2008-03-16 06:39:00 | Sweet, will definitely be going for the WRT54GL. Cheers! | Sick Puppy (6959) | ||
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