[dba-Tech] routers

You are right about the speed being better than the internet.  Even if the
speed is severely degraded, a wireless will usually provide way more than
your internet connection.  My internet is 5 mbit / sec so FOR INTERNET
BROWSING, anything more than that is unused. 

Of course I do dev work on my machine including pulling data out of files on
my Server and feeding it through a VB.Net program and back to SQL Server.
For that I need the fastest possible connection.  So when I am at my desk I
plug my laptop (which has a 1 gbit NIC) to a 1 gbit switch that all of my
servers plug into.  But if I just need the flexibility of moving downstairs
I have it.  And my wife's laptop is in her office downstairs and she is
always wireless.

One problem that I have is that my wireless is my hardware firewall as well.
I really need to move my cable modem and wireless downstairs to the basement
(for the best coverage of the main floor) but then I would have to snake a
wired connection up to my second floor office to connect to my gigabit
switch.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 4:16 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] routers

My wife and I love the ability to move around the house and even outside
with the laptops. Having only a wired connection would severely restrict
that movement. I have done work out in the garage, out in the driveway, on
the dining room table, on the kitchen table, upstairs in the bedroom and out
back on the deck. Depending on how far away we are from the router the
wireless connection is just as fast as a wired connection for Internet
browsing. It is as fast as the cable modem connection speed is. For small
print jobs you really don't notice any speed difference either between wired
and wireless. If we were doing a lot of file sharing that would be different
of course. I usually use my laptop in the same office that the router is in
and could easily plug in a wire but really don't see a need to.
Occasionally I have to click on a "repair connection" option to get
connected when I come out of hibernation but that is very infrequently,
maybe once every 20 times.

You really had bad luck with wireless didn't you Rocky?  ;-)

I think Susan is concerned with having the wired connections to the
computers with her grandchildren running about and maybe tripping over the
wires.

GK

On 9/26/07, Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
wrote:
> You need a connection to the router.  Not necessarily wireless.  If 
> you could run cable easily that would be better - faster, more 
> reliable.  The Netgear is a good compromise, IMO.
>
> Rocky
>


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garykjos at gmail.com
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