Good Deal?

[bigglesuk]

Hi all
I am looking to put in my first wireles network and i was in pc world and saw this on offer http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/770394 and i wondered if anyone would know if it is good deal or not or if the router is any good as i have not heard of the make before.Any help woukd be great.

cheers

[webcrawler2050]

The simple answer lol No - it's from PC world!

[Druchii]

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[KungFuKitty]

Originally Posted by bigglesuk

Hi all
I am looking to put in my first wireles network and i was in pc world and saw this on offer http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/770394 and i wondered if anyone would know if it is good deal or not or if the router is any good as i have not heard of the make before.Any help woukd be great.

cheers

Hi bigglesuk I wouldn't say thats a specifically good deal no, are you wanting that router in paticular? if not then maybe this is worth a look? cheaper and seems to have fairly good reviews obviously some people not happy with it but spotted a couple of VM customers seemed to work well for whilst looking through for you, any opinions on this router from the rest of you CF folk?
Good luck in your search
~ Kitty x

[Rob]

If you are going to compare routers there needs to be a comparison between the different wireless speeds available. Amongst the g speed routers the Linksys WRT54g range was definitely a leader. However I don't know about the "n" standard which is supposedly faster than the "g".

Bear in mind however that both g and n are faster than the current fastest broadband. If you are buying wireless now, n is probably the standard to go for to allow future proofing with the faster speeds Virgin Media might be launching.

[andyj00]

I noticed the one you were looking at has a wireless adaptor bundled in with it. You might want to take a look at this......I got this Belkin B5DUK045 G+ MIMO router and adaptor package from PC World the other week. The price seems as good as anywhere and the adaptor is worth £25 (although you dont need to buy another £25 one if you want to add another on - I bought a cheap £10 one from play.com and its fine). Its a nice bit of kit. Well recommended.