Need help with wireless

[boyza1]

HI I have just upgraded from base to unlimited and am connecting wirelessly.
Firstly any ideas how long it takes to upgrade as i did it online.

Secondly I bought a netgear rangemax N usb 2.0 adapater with speeds of up to 300mbps but it will still only connect at 54 mbps. Any ideas???

All help greatly appreciated

Simon

[Smithy99]

If you are using the Sky supplied router it is not an "n" type so will not do thoe speeds, you are stuck with 54mb if you can get that which I doubt.

You would be better buying a couple of homeplugs.

[boyza1]

HOm eplugs?? Never heard of them wat r they?
I have read that i Could possibly pigyback my sky router using it as a modem and then getting a n enabled router ??

[Smithy99]

They are a way of connecting things to the router via a wire without actually running in any wires.

The will give a much, much better connection than wireless and will not suffer from wireless interference.

Here are a couple of Solwise ones similar to the ones I have.

2 x SOLWISE 85Mbps HOMEPLUG TURBO ETHERNET ADAPTERS NEW on eBay (end time 27-Jan-10 00:15:28 GMT)

[boyza1]

ok thanks for that maybe im beign dumb here does that mean techinclly ur turning ur electricity point into a computer point? sounds a wicked idea! does this mean that ill be more likely to get the internet speed im supposed t as if i were hardwired?

Thank you ever so much for your help and guidance on this

[PaulSky]

No it just means you will see less loss of speed due to the normal limitations of wireless. It will not impact the speed your line will supply to your router.
Using the electrical wiring with homeplugs means the wiring acts like ethernet cables and carries the data from the router to the pcs connected by homeplugs onto the electrical circuit.