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Hi,

just bought an apple ibook with "Airport" wireless networking and i want to be able to wirelessly share high speed broadband and files, printers and scanners that are connected to my desktop.

what equipment do i need?

just a combined 3 in 1 router/switch and access point and my laptop with its wireless card?

mike

hi, thanks brad,

any suggestions on which one, where from etc?

I have found a Netgear MR814 Cable/DSL 2.4Ghz Wireless Router that sounds good, which is £55 on www.novatech.co.uk

any suggestions?

belkin?

mike

I don't have one myself and so can't give you any specific advice, but if I was buying one I'd want the following features:

WPA (wifi protected access - better security than WEP)
WEP (encrypts transmission - worth having, but can be cracked in ~30mins, therefore you're better off with WPA)
Mac address filtering
The ability to turn off SSID broadcasting
Stateful packet inspecting firewall.

ok, thanks

can you think of anyone that might know of something like that, and/or the best place to find one

mike