Have a look on Trade me for a Asus WL-520GU, Wireless Router. As Nick says, 40-50 bucks should do the trick. There was a guy in Chch selling them but I cant find his details right now.
I imagine it will connect to your Telstra thingee. It will give you household-wide wireless and cabled connections if you run a few ethernet cables around the room. Really simple & reliable in my experience. For a few more dollars there's a version that includes a Print server which is great - just plug in a USB printer and you get print connections from anywhere. No problems networking up linux, XP & Vista machines. - David On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > switch $40 ish > old computer $nil from the junk pile > ipcop $free > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Matthew Whiting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Kia ora everyone, > > > > I live in a household with four computers and funnily enough, we've been > > making do without a router and connecting to the internet one at a time. > > Unsurprisingly, this is getting increasingly frustrating! So, I've > > started looking for a second-hand router but am unsure what to look for > > - something that'll be easy enough to setup. We have two machines > > running ubuntu, one mac and one laptop running xp. If it makes a > > difference, we have telstra cable broadband, but I'm thinking of > > switching to xnet (any recommendations here as well?). > > > > I also would like to suss a graphic card for my machine. Again, doesn't > > have to be anything flash and I'd rather not throw much cash at it. > > > > Not a hardware person myself, so grateful for any help here :) > > > > Cheers > > Matt > > >
