How about the firewall, then? AVG free?
How about the firewall, then? AVG free?
Probably a good thing - 802.11a is on 5GHz not 2.4, so you are far less susceptible to interference from all the untold multitude of 2.4GHz devices that are around these days.
It also has eight non-overlapping channels rather than the three you get with 802.11b,g or n (channels 1,6 and 11)
The only real disadvantage of 802.11a is that the higher frequency signals don't have the penetrating power of 2.4GHz when it comes to walls, soild objects etc. But if you're already using it happily, you're on a winner!
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Yah- boo!, my leccy bills bigger than yours;)...
We've got one running over 17.5 miles;)..
Bands. A, B, and C in 5.8 Ghz are all for slightly different applications..
The don't like trees for fixed links...FWIW...
thanks, I will be setting another up today time allowing.
Seems you can't on all versions of XP.
I'm not well up on windose - but there may be a free prog that gets over this for those where you can't.
Other possibility is to use the router firewall to only allow access to certain machines.
very few router actually route the LAN side. The routing and firewalling is between the LAN and the Internet.
Mine certainly does on the WAN - which I think was the problem. Not much point on the LAN. You'd do that via the individual firewalls on the computers if you needed it?
Methinks several people are confused as to what routers *do*. Especially given that domestic broadband routers generally have hubs (wireless or wired) built in on the local side.
They're generally modems too?
But as I said the wireless hub on mine allows you to decide which devices have access to it. Anything else would be crazy.
Not by routing, generally.
A typical DSL router is a modem, a router and a switch or hub.
The wireless side tends to be simply an extension of the switch or hub as far as I can tell.
Access control is at the MAC level, not the IP level. But I dont do wireless much, so that may be wrong.
Its a bit tricky for the average user who just wants a homogeneous network behind a NAT firewalled router..
Indeed. But that's nothing to do with routing. You just happen to have a router and a wireless hub in the same box.
And a modem.
However most would find it difficult to find a bare router - even if they wanted to. Talking about domestic use, of course.
I fear I am fighting a single-handed losing battle against the loss of the correct meaning of the word "router". :o(
I've got a cheap one from B&Q which came with lots of 1/4" and 1/2" cutters.
How do our US cousins pronounce 'PC' routers?
You'll have to be more specific. I'd thought it was a computer that linked others via IP on a network?
row-ter. As in "rout" - "a rabble dispersing in disarray".
Kinda. Not necessarily via IP. And it links networks. The problem is that a domestic router usually has three components in the same box; a modem to talk to the ISP, a hub to talk to the local network, and the actual router itself. People have started referring to hubs as routers...
I guess it will go the same way as the word "video" of which my video studio manager friend now despairingly says "people say 'if I bring my video round to yours tonight, can I video that video you videoed for me?'"
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