Wireless for a Dorm

[FourBear]

I live in a dorm, where we are all provided with ethernet cable jacks. Seeing as mine is across the room from my desk in a horrible spot, what would be a good (inexpensive) router to get? It wouldn't have to have a very far range at all. It would be good if I could also use it off campus in a few months when I (hopefully) get my apartment. I really can't stand tangling my 25ft ethernet cable any longer.

[brian873]

Asus make cheap routers.

Just go to your local IT shop and what's available. All you need to really look out for it that it has a RJ45 Ethernet wan port and good security features such as lock down via MAC and WEP for encryption.

The cheap ones are much of a muchness.

I would recommended IPcop if you have an old PC just buy a wireless card and set it up. With this you good also give other dorm user safe and secure hotspot access.

[FourBear]

Thanks for the suggestions. I really needed to know which had good security features, as there have been issues on campus with wireless and security.

[brian873]

if you want security go IPCOP you can completley lock it down and also provide a limited free service to guests it has a built in proxy so you can see what everyoen is up to and you can issuies username passwords if you want.