Tech Question: Wi-Fi WTF

[James_B_Wads2000]

I want to get Wi-Fi at home and don't know where to start. Mainly I don't want to slow down my desk top internet. Please help me.


James

[Sombeech]

Just go grab a Linksys router at Walmart for 50 bucks.

Will this be for a laptop, or are you putting a wireless card in your PC as well?

[James_B_Wads2000]

I think I have a card in the PC but I want it to have a hard line. I have a 50Mbs Internet connection that was cut in half the last time I hooked up a router.

[fouristhenewone]

Just buy a Linksys or DLink Wireless Router, run your ethernet straight from it to desktop and you're done. There should be no reason for speed loss through a router.

[Sombeech]

It might be a 54 MB per second connection, but keep in mind, you're probably only getting a 7 MB per second MAX connection speed with your ISP.

Unless you're doing some WLAN parties with gaming, or networking to your other home computers, you'll never use that full 54 MB per second.

[James_B_Wads2000]

Just buy a Linksys or DLink Wireless Router, run your ethernet straight from it to desktop and you're done. There should be no reason for speed loss through a router.

This is exactly what I did last time and I ran internet speed test from two different websites both before and after. It showed that I was losing internet speed. That was about a year ago, maybe now I can get a faster router

[James_B_Wads2000]

It worked! I got me one of these: Link (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8639958&type=product&id=1194054018654)
http://images.bestbuy.com/BestBuy_US/images/products/8639/8639958_rb.jpg
It is supposedly a one gig conection. All I know is that it is fast enough for my PC. :2thumbs:

Before
http://www.speedtest.net/result/455936863.png (http://www.speedtest.net) http://www.speedtest.net/result/455944611.png (http://www.speedtest.net) http://www.speedtest.net/result/455944846.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

After
http://www.speedtest.net/result/455958978.png (http://www.speedtest.net) http://www.speedtest.net/result/455959269.png (http://www.speedtest.net) http://www.speedtest.net/result/455959464.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

Before
Last Result:
Download Speed: 23234 kbps (2904.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 17057 kbps (2132.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Last Result:
Download Speed: 23481 kbps (2935.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 15556 kbps (1944.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Last Result:
Download Speed: 23862 kbps (2982.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 16007 kbps (2000.9 KB/sec transfer rate)

After
Last Result:
Download Speed: 21232 kbps (2654 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 17711 kbps (2213.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Last Result:
Download Speed: 23849 kbps (2981.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 18500 kbps (2312.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Last Result:
Download Speed: 22702 kbps (2837.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 17760 kbps (2220 KB/sec transfer rate)



James

[bugnuker]

Thats a dam fast line
where did you get that?
I see your ISP is mstar, but what part of SLC do you get service?
And if you dont mind telling, how much do you pay a month for a fatty pipe like that?

[James_B_Wads2000]

Thats a dam fast line
where did you get that?
I see your ISP is mstar, but what part of SLC do you get service?
And if you dont mind telling, how much do you pay a month for a fatty pipe like that?

Hell no I don

[asdf]

and what do you use it for?

[James_B_Wads2000]

and what do you use it for?

Mostly porn. Mainly I use it just to brag on web forums like this. :haha:

In all seriousness I watched a PBS documentary that was about small municipalities building their own fiber-optic networks. The large telecommunication companies refused to build it so that they can gouge the public on their crappy phone and cable lines. There are about five or six companies that own over 85% of all phone, internet and cable networks in the country. So the banded together and promised congress that they would build fiber if they deregulated the industry. Instead they just charged more for the same copper-based technology. So small cities build them themselves and ran it like a utility rather than a strictly for profit venture.

About two months after seeing this doc a Mstar salesmen was at my door asking me if I wanted fiber. I was in the market for upgrading to faster internet. At the time I was paying $35 for a 1.5Mbps DSL from Qwest. They were offering 15Mbps for $40 with no commitment or installation costs. So I went for it. Six months later they started offering 50Mbps for $45 for a year. So I got it and now the one year introductory rate is gone.

So in answer to your question I just use it for downloading videos and music. I don

[Deathcricket]

I always get penis envy when I see those numbers James.

:frustrated:

[Cirrus2000]

I always get penis envy when I see those numbers James.

:frustrated:

I guess I missed that post. But your internet speed is pretty impressive, too!