Hi Don, > You most likely do have an adapter already unless the Dell is really > really old. To confirm look at the back of your tower. You should see > a normal telephone hookup socket (the one used for a dial up connection) > and a somewhat larger but very similar looking socket. This is probably > a bit removed from the dial up port. Your cable modem is likely > connected here. (It might be connected to a USB port but lets hope not.) My cable modem is connected where you said. > If you plan to connect to the router via Ethernet cable instead of > wireless, you will not see any benefit from the Speedbooster circuitry > in the router. If connecting wireless be sure to purchase a LinkSys > Speedbooster wireless adapter if you want the benefits of the > Speedbooster circuitry. Which do you suggest? I know it will probably cost more for the adapter, if it is not a big diff, just as soon wait on that. > Open the box. Unfold and read the installation instructions. Keep them > handy to follow along with. Remove the disk from box. Insert disk in > drive. Follow the prompts. Thanks, will give it a go, if I get stuck, > will shout back ;0 christy > > Remember: > > 1. change password to the router. > 2. if not connecting wireless disable wireless access. > 3. if connecting wireless enable security/encryption and use WPA or > WPA-2. WEP is worthless. > 4. if connecting wireless, use an encryption passkey at least 16 > characters long. Longer than 20 is wasted unless you using a weak > string of characters. > 5. Do not confuse the router passWORD with the encryption passKEY. > 6. A good passkey will look like this: a7Q*f%2Br@%9UxT# > > 802.11n is faster and has a longer range than 802.11a/b/g. As long as > you are in your house and your primary need for speed is uploading to > and downloading from the internet and the wireless router speed is > faster than your upload and download speeds then you are OK. A modest > cable modem connection will allow about 3Mbps download and 256Kbps > upload speeds peak. Faster and slower speeds are available from most > cable companies. > > Please note: Those speeds are in bits not bytes. To convert to bytes > divide by 8. The samples above would be about 375KBps and 32KBps. > > Don > > > cristy wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just purchased a Wireless-G Broadband Router with SpeedBooster >> (Linksys). >> I forgot how I found out but I think I already have the adapter I need >> (would like to double check though, how do I do this?) I have a desktop >> (Dell) and cable/modem (Cox) The desktop is hooked up to cable/modem. >> Is >> it hard for me to set this up ? Also, what is the big speed difference >> between this one and the "N", is it really noticeable? What does it >> mean? >> I know with dialup speed is very low and with able much higher, is this >> what >> it refers to? >> >> thanks, >> christy > --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk OR To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. To unsubscribe send email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join our separate PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------