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Thomson SpeedTouch 585 v7 Wireless Router
by mariegill
We got this free when we opted for broadband connection with Karoo internet providers. I am going to be honest here, i was a bit apprehensive as the Thomson Modem is pants, however it was free so rather then look a gift horse in the mouth i thought i may aswell give it a go- i had nothing to loose.
Most of my friends had ... problems setting up this router, and so did i! It took me two hours but i got there in the end. The who process for setting it up is a bit sketchy, however once you do it once its like anything you wonder why you found it so hard every time there after.
What i will say is the performance is fantastic, we have three laptops connected to it and two smart phones- not all at the same time but atleast three running at once. We get really fast internet speed that has never failed us- the security protection on it is of highest standard too. You get three options no password, lowercase password and a mixture of lowercase and uppercase letters (reccomended).
Overall i am happy with my freebie, i woudnt of baught this mainly because i wasnt too confident with the brand- however after using it i would deffinately not regret parting with my money for another if need be.
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Thomson SpeedTouch 585 v7 Wireless Router
by wxcat
I have a Thomson SpeedTouch 585 for my BeThere (www.be.com) broadband connection who lease you the router. A fairly standard offering, with wired and wireless connectivity available bolted on an ADSL2 Modem. Offers a max speed of up to 24Mb broadband, and in my case I get 12Mb broadband through my line.
The router is pretty ... good in sorting itself out, the setup is harmless and the router does what routers are supposed to do, run in the background and keep the internet connection up and fast. It does occasionly drop out and reconnect, probably once every few days on average, which is standard to any router I've had before. I have computers wired into the network, a network hard drive wired into the network with a network printer and laptops wirelessly connected.
All in all it is happy transferring large files between my file server and my laptops without issue and is happy playing HD content over the wireless connection.
The only one time I have had problems with the wireless connections I had to reset the wireless passwords and encryption to factory settings and just reset it, which took about 10 minutes and all happy again. The only other problem was with BT deciding they wanted to cut my phone line off.
I've had it now for almost 18 months and a very happy customer of high speed broadband for £17.50/month!
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Linksys Wireless-B Game Adapter WGA11B
by chids
Although this adaptor is now particularly outdated and thus, is not available in shops anymore: it is a reminder that old technology can still work.
The adaptor is quite small - measuring about the same as a pack of cigarettes - it can easily be tucked away or left out without attracting attention to itself.
Setup ... of the device is relatively easy. All you do it plug it into a computer and use the software to configure which network to join. The next time you plug it in, no matter what device you plug it into, it will search and join the configured network. Usefully, it has several channels which can be configured for different networks. This means you can pre-configure different networks and select the network available at the time.
The device is very sturdy and has survived several: squishes, drops and knocks.
The device is not only for games consoles, but for anything with an ethernet socket. Note that on a PC the age of the device will show through while downloading large files.
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