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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
 
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.
 
hmmm double posting, bad spelling/grammer, i need to lay of the green lol. but im sure you made sense of the important bits :)
 
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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