I have a netgear DGN2000, no problems, works well. It's on offer at pcworld at the moment, and microdirect.

BB lives in a house with solid brick internal walls which means a couple of rooms away from the router the signal is low or very low.

Anyone know whether the N spec routers really give a greater range as claimed...

Same here, but we don't have any problems at all with signal strength over the other side of the house and on a different floor (Netgear modem/router). We live in the middle of nowhere with only one other house nearby, so maybe we don't get any interference which probably helps.

In fact we can also get "good" signal strength from our next door neighbour's Sky box, so Sky might also be worth looking at!

Thankyou one and all.

It looks like it's between the Netgear DGN2000 and Linksys WAG160.

Reviews for both are good, but the Linksys is considerably cheaper I asume that is because it's not as fast as the Netgear.
This is not a problem for me as, living well away from the exchange, anything will be quicker than my internet link.

Anyone here got a Linksys WAG160?

Ta. :ok:

Yep, I've got one.

It works well, once you've worked out how to tame it. I do find the flying saucer shape a bit trying: it's behind my monitor, a long stretch and the connections are neatly buried at the back so actually plugging all the wires in is a pain. But that's just my layout.

I got the network set up quite quickly with XP but I've changed to W Seven recently and haven't been able to get the network to work again. The internet is fine: it's just that I can't "see" the main computer from my laptop. The more I read the millions of help pages the more confusing it gets: SOPs.....

If you're trying to do it using Home Group you can't, you need both on W7 to do that, remove home group and try again, use the network and sharing centre in the control panel.

Avoid Home Group like the plague!

On my machines, I'd set up a Home Group - which didn't work. So I removed it, and it immediately locked up all the hard drives on all the machines. I had to do a reinstall on the laptop, but fortunately Linux allowed me to unlock the desktop.

If you have a Home Group, just leave it there. Deleting it may cause disaster. Set up a Workgroup and make all machines members of that. Worked fine for me.