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mc-dexter

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System Name The Abominable Dust Bomb / Just A Box
Processor AMD 6400+ BE (Windsor) @3.35Ghz / AMD 3200+ (Barton)
Motherboard ASUS M2A VM - HDMI / Abit NF7 - S2
Cooling Xigmatek HDT S1283 / Gigabyte 3D Cooler Ultra
Memory 2x 1Gb Kingston DDR2 667Mhz Dual Channel @800Mhz (soon 3Gb Dual) / 2x 512Mb Geil Dual DDR 400Mhz
Video Card(s) XFX GeForce 8600GT (soon to be ASUS 8800GT) / MSI Geforce 5200FX
Storage 80Gb Maxtor 2mb cache Maxtor 500Gb 32mb cache / 2x 40Gb Maxtor's
Display(s) 19" TFT, 15" TFT, 32" TV / 15" CRT
Case XBLADE / Everest
Audio Device(s) (Onboard) Realtek ALC883 5.1 High Definition / Onboard
Power Supply Antec True Power 480w / 400w Winpower
Software Win Vista Premium SP2 / Win XP Pro SP2
Benchmark Scores 3D Mark 06 = 6709 ... lol
pretty much, i think the wireless G range will last you a few years, as some people have said they have some problems playing online games... my brother has never had that problem since we upgraded our wireless router from the shitty one we had, we now have a netgear and i am very happy with it. linksys, netgear and cisco are all also good brands, linksys have used cisco's security brand, which apparently is more than ok :)

also when ever you do get round to getting your wireless router, be sure to set up the wireless security - just so you don't get people using your internet for free. the setup is fairly easy, but once you get that and do find you need any help, remember about TPU :D
 

CashComp

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Thanks to everyone for all the help. Learned alot, as I do any time I decide to step foot on this site. I think I know enough to get started with this project known as wireless networking.
 

mc-dexter

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Motherboard ASUS M2A VM - HDMI / Abit NF7 - S2
Cooling Xigmatek HDT S1283 / Gigabyte 3D Cooler Ultra
Memory 2x 1Gb Kingston DDR2 667Mhz Dual Channel @800Mhz (soon 3Gb Dual) / 2x 512Mb Geil Dual DDR 400Mhz
Video Card(s) XFX GeForce 8600GT (soon to be ASUS 8800GT) / MSI Geforce 5200FX
Storage 80Gb Maxtor 2mb cache Maxtor 500Gb 32mb cache / 2x 40Gb Maxtor's
Display(s) 19" TFT, 15" TFT, 32" TV / 15" CRT
Case XBLADE / Everest
Audio Device(s) (Onboard) Realtek ALC883 5.1 High Definition / Onboard
Power Supply Antec True Power 480w / 400w Winpower
Software Win Vista Premium SP2 / Win XP Pro SP2
Benchmark Scores 3D Mark 06 = 6709 ... lol
hmmm double posting, bad spelling/grammer, i need to lay of the green lol. but im sure you made sense of the important bits :)
 
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Cooling cm 212 EVO
Memory G.SKILL 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1000 (PC2 8000) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model
Video Card(s) BFG GTX 275
Storage WD black 500gb Samsung 1tb
Display(s) 27" 1366x768 Olevia 527v
Case Antec Three Hundred
Audio Device(s) ALC889
Power Supply CORSAIR TX Series CMPSU-750TX 750W ATX12V v2.3 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Ac
Software Windows 8 pro
the best advice anyone ever gave to anyone:

get something you can run linux on, wether it be the best, openWRT + X-Wrt white russian, or DD-WRT [i dont like it as much, but its great for a novice, less than 10% the features, but good anyhow] or even tomato is much better than any stock "firmware"

it can be like the difference between windowsXP and windowsME.

heh sorry for trying to sell you stuff, if you end up buying like 5 routers in a row only to learn that default firmwares on them suck and u need to get something better u would understand, alot of us have done that :((
 
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