The problems Wifi has are with going through walls. If you are just looking to do upstairs, downstairs and outside around the clubhouse then a bog standard wireless router has a good chance of being fine for the job.

Wot K said. Also, if you do use multiple wireless routers or repeaters, remember that 802.11 b/g channels have quite a lot of frequency overlap. Off the top of my head, only channels 1, 6 and 11 have no overlap. It shouldn't matter because it's spread spectrum (try saying that after a few glasses of wine).

Haystack

I'm not sure whether your clubs network is secure enough!

A serious home or a business network should have software firewalls and AV on each computer (the Win XP SP2 firewall is not as bad as some would tell you). In addition, there should be a seperate hardware firewall at the point of connection to the internet.

If you are connecting a semi public WiFi network to the same internet connection, then this should be connected to a totally seperate network segment so that anyone on the WiFi network can't access the fixed network any more than someone on the internet can.

Yes. We do have firewalls and AV on each PC that belongs to the club.

Just a comment that having installed AVG I still ran my F-Prot in tandem.

This morning I uninstalled the F-Prot and gosh the PC runs a heck of a lot quicker.

I read recently that it might be dangerous to run two ante-virus progs at the same time as they might both open the same file and mess up the operating system. This was what inspired me to remove F-Prot - but the gain in speed was unexpected and a true joy.

TP

supposed to have been upgraded by BT today to 8mb broadband and am getting 2mb download and 200k upload , any comments by anybody?

will moving from the voyager router to the bt hub speed things up?

Your router is probably connecting at the highest speed it can manage. The 200kb up doesn't look good. If you can get from your router the values it shows for attenuation and noise margin (it will be on a statistics page) then I can probably help further. Also key in your details on the broadband checker and on the BT ADSL tab look up the speed it thinks it can support and the distance to the exchange:

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/checker2.php

kayak , tried the link it says:

Bt wholesale say my line will support 6mbps or greater with adsl max

standard adsl RAG results 2mbps adsl (whatever this means)?

'Should' rather than 'will'. Some might say 'might' :-)

The 2mbps confirms that you would get that on a fixed 2mbps line, i.e. what you probably had before, rather than the up to 8mbps connection which you now have.

On an 'up to 8mbps' connection the speed the router can connect at depends on the quality of the line, hence the need for the router statistics.

How to get your router statistics

PS. If you end up having to put an address in your browser to check on your statistics, don't forget to save it in 'Favorites'.

Although I'm not with BT Broadband, when my line was upgraded, the advise was to frequently reboot the router for the first 2 weeks before max speed would be achieved.

says the following:

self test passed
standard T1.413
local tx power 9.55
local line atten 14.0
local line snr margin 30.5
up svalue 1
up dvalue 1
remote tx power 19.57
remote line atten 5.5
remote snr margin 29

no idea what any of this means , is it what you want?

maddoctor

have been told that this voyager 205 router may not support 8mb

Those are pretty excellent statistics. Do you live very close to the exchange? I would have thought pretty much around the corner from it.

As optimist says the first thing to do is to wait two weeks, rebooting the router once daily. The exchange takes a while to establish the best speed the line can handle.

I took the speed figures you stated earlier as the connection speed, but I think you may have taken the figures from a speed test. What is the router itself showing as the connection speeds up and downstream?

downfast 2272
upfast288

700metres from exchange

again i ask is the problem this voyager 205 router

thanks by the way for helping , much appreciated

maddoctor. I was with BT until a while ago. BT state that you have to wait up to 10 days to get your max speed. Apparently it's a dynamic system (sic) that monitors speed and errors. It then tweaks your speed until it's at the max for your line.
Whenever I had a problem with BTBroadband I found it always took about 3 days to get back to the speed it was before the problem.
Keep monitoring, it'll get better.

Edit: Maddoctor. If you get through to the Indian Call Centre for help anytime - tell them to piss off from me.
:-)))))

bolshi , just got the BT hub router which is supposed to be a clever little box that does the tweaking in an hour. not moved over to it yet cos they only upgraded me a noon today and may be buying a new computer. am asking all these questions cos my bt broadband has been shit upto now - when the kids come online here at 4pm i have seen the speed download go to just 40kbps

maddoctor, the problem is that your line has not yet been upgraded. 2272/288 is the standard reading for a 2mb line. You could try rebooting the router but I don't think that will make any difference. When it has been upgraded the connection speed should change to 8192/448.

thanks kayak , now how the hell do i get in touch with bt?.

never found a phone number

The Voyager 205 should be compatible with 8Mbps but you should be using the Ethernet socket rather than USB as throughput might otherwise suffer.