Re: Wireless connection dropping packets---oh no it isn't.

In article <gv3q29$qi6$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Kevin Buzzard <buzzard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

When I last went to buy a wireless router, I was asked who my internet
service
provider was, because they wanted to sell me one sort if my internet
was coming down the phone line and another sort if it was coming
down a cable (and in the UK, pretty much every ISP sells precisely one of
these
services). I know *nothing* about wireless networking I'm afraid, and
maybe you're telling me that I've got the wrong end of the stick,
but I extrapolated from this that if I decided to change my home broadband
from ADSL to cable then I'd have to buy a new router and a new wireless
router
(the things I currently have in my set-up) and so I didn't want to start
expanding on what I have if I'm going to take the plunge and change in a
few weeks.

Am I talking nonsense?

Not at all. You may have been misinformed, however.

My xDSL "modem" connects to the 'phone line (to my ISP) via a plain old
phone jack (RJ11); it connects to my router's WAN port via an ethernet
jack (RJ45 if you want, 8P8C). My router is a DGL 4300, wireless g and
gigabit. Very nice too, I might add.

If your ISP gives you a "modem" that connects to them via fibre, and it
has an ethernet jack for your router, then nothing will have changed
except that modem, as far as I can see. That doesn't mean I'm right,
though; like I said, I have no knowledge of fibre, or of British ISPs
either, but my first action would be to simply swap the "modems" and see
what transpired.
--
Suddenly he realized that he was alone
with a giant halfwit on a dark deserted street.
-- Chester Himes

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