Can somone advise?? - Wanting to set up broadband wireless network in my home. (2pcs + 2 laptops). At the moment we are with AOL, but it seems to be so complicated through them. Thier forums are fuil of advice and problems to do with drivers, routers etc. Just want the simplest way of setting it all up.

My questions are:
1 - Is aol good choice if u want to wireless network?
2- What is the best (and simplest router and modem i can use for aol)
3-if aol arent the best, can anyone reccomend a good ISP

I hope somone might be able to help.

Many thanks.

Mozzman

Are you using an aol dialup connection or aol broadband using a cable modem? If you have a broadband cable or dsl connection and your computer connects to it via an ethernet cable, you should be able to buy any cheap wireless router (linksys wrt54g) and connect the ethernet cable from the broadband modem to the internet port on the wireless router, and you should be good to go.

hope this helps

Thanks for your reply.
Ok.. forgive newbie speak... this is research prior to setting it up.
Prospectively it will be Broadband via phone line (adsl??) so have been told i will need adsl filters on phone sockets. AOL provide free modem, but apparently it is USB connected to master pc, so whatever router i get will have to have ethernet ports AND modem. My queery is which one; I would love to just plug in a liinksys and go, but AOL recommend particular modem routers (eg `netgear`), which they will ONLY recommend, and they all appear to require a great deal of setting up.

So.. can i use linksys with aol broadband.. ?? that is my question i guess.

Hope i have made some sense, and thanks again.

Mozzman