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Are there any real benefits to goin wireless on my desk top, apart from removing the obvious plate of spaghetti?

Sometime back I had trouble accessing (it still occasionally haunts me) the internet. The TalkTalk engineer said that we a minor wiring blip somewhere within the house and advised us to go wireless. Is this true or is it money for old rope?

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Re: Advice on Wireless PC

Are you currently using Powerline adaptors or some such? Just wondering where the wiring blip in the house comes into it.

 

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Re: Advice on Wireless PC

I'm using conventional connections of the PC and modem into a 240v extension lead. It's weird because the switch to the shower in our power box outside the house turns itself off.

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Re: Advice on Wireless PC

Can't see how wireless is going to improve things then - if it's the router losing power causing an outage, then that's still going to happen with a wireless router...

 

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Unless having it wired into the router is an inconvenience in terms of trailing wires or where you have to put the router, I'd stick with wired.

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Re: Advice on Wireless PC

Thanks, gentlemen.

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