[Ti] Best wireless router solution

[Phill Tran]

Yeah. I have a netgear wireless router (model MR814). It seems to work 
fine.  It runs 8011.b.  The only wireless device i have hooked up to it 
is my 667 DVI Ti-book with an old apple airport card.   I have two 
PeeCees (Win 2000 Advanced Server and my brother-in-Law is still 
running win 98 on his) hardwired and an old original imac connected to 
it. Everything connects fine. The wireless connection is fast enough to 
play music with iTunes off of the server but too slow to update my iPod 
quickly.  I like Netgear. i wish i could afford the airport X but it's 
way too much for me.  The netgear is the best looking router i've found 
next to  the airport base station.

I haven't fully tested it yet, but I think web browsing is slower when 
i'm using a wireless connection. The "internet connect" dialog says i 
have a 75% connection but i think the 25% interference is enough to 
slow me down.  But it does work throughout the house fine.

.phill



On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 01:32  PM, cbirds wrote:
>
> Mo, glad you brought this up as it bears repeating for those of us who 
> are seeking alternatives as I too am.
> I did some internet research and it seems that Netgear gets high marks 
> in the Mac-friendliness category. So does Zoom, but not as easy to set 
> up.
> My brother uses a Netgear  with his cable connection so his daughter 
> can use her laptop wirelessly, and as far as compatibility with the 
> TiBook Airport Card, stay tuned until after September 6th and I can 
> tell you if it flew........
>
> Right now I use a regular old Netgear "hub", and no one can tell me if 
> it is really an actual HUB or a ROUTER or both, but I just know it 
> does the job of putting more than one of my many Macs online at 
> once...without any sort of configuration.
> However, it is not wireless and I am first going to try to use the 
> Card-To-Card type of connection (software router) without Airport BS 
> before I buy a wireless device.
>
> ....J