wiring ethernet to my home

[doubledrop]

Originally Posted by bockhold

I would just wire the house up. Home Depot has all the stuff you will need.

Hey doubledrop, what do you do for a livin? Just curious cause you said virtual machines. One of these days Ill be an Network Admin some where when I get out of college.

I am a computer dork. software mainly. work for IBM in technical sales. I do the selling to the technical teams at customers. In otherwords, anything in the sale that doesn't involve the price I am in the middle of

[bockhold]

Belkin is a good company, I just havent used their networking equipment. I do have a UPS battery backup for my computers and when it needed replaced, they did it and have good tech support.

[doubledrop]

Originally Posted by Harohunter

From the Manufacturer
The Netgear WGE111 lets you link your game console to a wireless network, eliminating a tangle of wires. The Netgear WGE111 54 Mbps Wireless Game Adapter offers the perfect solution. It can be attached to a game console's Ethernet port to link to console to a wireless network for Internet gaming. For LAN (AdHoc) gaming, two WGE111 or more units can be used to link two game consoles to each other, without a wireless router even being needed Ð ideal for LAN parties. An external switch allows users to easily select between Internet and AdHoc modes, and the WGE111 is interoperable with 802.11b and 802.11g devices.

Amazon.com: Netgear WGE111 54 Mbps Wireless Game Adapter: Electronics
The one i have

Or they are called Wireless Bridges

those are still like $80, so may as well spend the $99 for the XBOX adapter which is more our of the way, as it attaches to the xbox, not another box sitting around

[doubledrop]

Originally Posted by Evil Eye

He also said Apple, so I'm assuming he's running them on his Mac...

my router is made by Apple, no macs here, not yet at least
would love a Macbook Pro

the virtual machines I build out for customers with our software and suck for Proofs of Concepts and Proofs of Technology

[Rob]

so should i keep my router then, i still have to go get a new adapter for the computer. hopefully one that is good with vista. the linksys said it was vista ready but obviously it wasnt.

[Evil Eye]

Belkin is good. They make a lot of computer items as well, so I generally try to select companies who specialize in the market they are serving.

[Rob]

hmmmm, ok, ill go to another store today then cause walmart only had the linksys adapters.

[Evil Eye]

Oh and I'm not sure this wasn't a Vista problem and not a problem with your adapter. It sucks that Linksys had such poor customer support. I have never had a problem with them, although I have never had to call.

[Rob]

they said they have been having issues with some of their adapters when being ran on a vista machine. its ok,ill try another brand. no big deal.

[doubledrop]

I do not like Linksys
I have had two router from them and where I had issues was periodically the router would just no longer allow traffic of any kind thru it. Would have to reset the router and reconfig, then all would be fine, for probably 2-3 months. Several coworkers all had the same problems as I did.
Belkin seemed to behave much better when I went to it, only issue I had with it was my son's 360 would have issues on XBOX Live, and the Belkin I had would not allow you to adjust the MTU throughput on my cable connection. I think the DSL setup allows it to be adjusted if necessary. Went to the Apple and all works great. I used the belkin for a year though.

never had any problems with Belkin adapters though