Modem and Wireless Wifi

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hotttnickkk

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#15805 9-Sep-2007 12:44

Hi, I'm currently using slingshot and connecting broadband through the telephone line. However, they also offer a wireless wifi modem option which I suspect I would be able to use as my laptop has wifi.

Has anyone had any experience with this? Is the connection going to be as fast with the wireless wifi modem compared with the one using the phone line?? Please help!!

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#85955 9-Sep-2007 14:07

The wifi connection is between any computer with a wireless adapter and the ADSL modem/router. The wifi capable ADSL modem/router still connects to the telephone exchange via the phoneline.

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#86041 10-Sep-2007 09:05

Hey man,

In answer to your question, they're pretty much the same. Like, picture the "wireless wifi" modem as exactly the same as the one you have at the mo, except with an antenna sticking out the top of it. And instead of plugging the blue ethernet cable into your pc, you can go anywhere in the house you like with your laptop, as long as you can pick up the wireless signal (range varies depending on lots of things).

Make sense?

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hotttnickkk

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#86057 10-Sep-2007 11:08

Hi Spazz, Thanks for that. Is the speed going to be the same as well between wifi and using the ethernet cable? I imagined that the cable would be faster as the data is transfer through the cable instead of through air??

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#86067 10-Sep-2007 12:18

A normal Wifi connection tops out at 54Mb/s, although there are several speeds that it will automatically drop back to as the signal weakens or has propagation problems. From my experience in a typical single level home with timber framed interiour walls you can readily maintain 54 or 22Mb/s connecctions without any problems. The cable is capable of 100Mb/s.

In reality I have found that the 54 or 22Mb/s is never achieved even if thats the shown current connection rate. However whilst your Internet connection is not likely to be much over 6-7Mb/s on ADSL1 and 15-20MB/s on ADSL2+ then the rate between your router and Laptop does not really have a major impact, it does though when transfering files to other pcs on your local lan.

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