Wireless Home Networking Simplified

Making Your List, Checking It Twice

Now that we know what types of stuff we need to buy, next we need to actually figure out models and numbers. The shopping list in Figure 6-3 includes the devices we will be using in our examples in the remainder of the book, but we want to make the point again that all of the equipment we are choosing can be substituted with the same equipment from another vendor, so long as you stick with the base N, G, or B standard.

Figure 6-3. Shopping List

For a closer look, the following sections summarize the equipment.

Wireless Router Options

Because we will be putting together a G-based network, the router we chose—WRT54G—is ...