Our house now got Wireless network
Sunday, 1 February 2004 14:24 pm
I spend a Sunday morning messing with a new toy I bought yesterday: a Wireless broadband router from Linksys/Cisco.
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We got only one PC in the house so you might wonder why we got a wireless router…. Well the only key reason I could find to buy the router is that it would allow me to hook-up Nadine’s IPAQ pda over WLAN to the PC. Alright - and what’s the key benefit of that? Well, for me it is simple: I can now carry the PDA into the living room / kitchen / bedroom and still tune into a Dutch radio station over the Internet via Windows media player.
This is great, the PDA now functions like a little portable radio, but this one lets tune in to virtually any radio station in the world! And in the living room I can hook it up to my stereo and listen radio with top quality sound.
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Furthermore, we can synchronize the IPAQ from anywhere in the house (and from outside) with the PC. It also enables us to browse files on the PC from the PDA. All over the airwaves via WLAN.
I bought the G Wireless router and not the B type, but I’m only using the B type WLAN at the moment. I still bought the G type router coz it was only 200 HKD extra over the B type, so when I get a laptop with built-in G WLAN, it can connect hi-speed in my home WLAN. I spend 700 HKD on the G router (that’s 70 Euro or about 90 USD.
Anyway - check out them pictures. One shows the Linksys router sitting neatly under my broadband modem. There are two antennas on tha back of the router, and they give good coverage in my whole place (but I live in Hong Kong - our places are small!). The other shows my IPAQ playing Radio 538 live over the WLAN… really: no cable can be seen 
Cheers,
Marc