dangerous_dom Wrote: > Basically, i want something that will just network all my WiFi devices > with the DSL/Cable modem bit as I dont/cant have broadband (stuck on > dial up).
? DSL/cable modems are usually for broadband. But anyway, most routers will work even without an Internet connection. No niceties like timestamping or DNS server, but the router should still work. I've never tried it, but if you had your modem-equipped PC using Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) with an integrated or add-on NIC you could tie that NIC into the router's WAN port and get DNS/timestamping! In a wired network, you could get by with a switch. For a wireless device, you'd be best served with a router as an AP usually doesn't have more than one LAN port and does not function as a switch. Wire the modem-equipped PC up to one of the router's LAN ports, activate ICS and then any devices connected wired or wirelessly to the router will also have Internet access when the PC's modem is active. In regards to which router to use, I went with one of the most popular routers ever made, the Linksys WRT54G, and it's been rock-solid for Internet access, general LAN and Squeezebox use, with all router firmware (including 3rd party Linux firmware) and all Squeezebox firmware. I went with it simply because it's so popular and so common that it was bound to work and it did. That's not to say it's the best - my old SMC 2804WBRP-G router had greater security, range and throughput but it didn't work with the SB3 until firmware 36 and won't ever work with WPA2. But stick with something very common. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23901 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
