Dave,
The best way to add the new router while maintaining the old one is to
plug the new one directly into an unused port on your DSL router
directly, if there is a spare port. If not, just plug it into the
wireless router and then reboot everything and make sure that everything
is still working.
I am late replying to your initial post and wanted to mention that in a
lot of rural areas there are wifi providers that use ground-based radio
links to get service to customers. I am using that type of service here
because we can't get DSL or cable, we are in a sparsely populated area,
about 5 miles out of the nearest town. Our only options are satellite -
which I don't recommend, dialup or the service we have. You might search
for "wifi service" and your zip code. When I did that with my zip I
came up with my provider and another one that just came into the area.
Peace,
Pat
Thusly spake Dave C
> Thanks for all the input. Now I just need to decide which one to get,
> but at least the choices are narrowed down.
>
> Follow up question:
>
> Can I leave my old wireless network up and live while I'm installing
> the new one, then transition the devices over one at a time? The old
> one is named "home" so I could name the new one "new home" and then
> reconnect everything, get the MAC filtering, passwords, etc all up one
> at a time and if there were any glitches at least the old one would be
> running as a backup.
>
> In addition to the desktop (hard wired to the router) I'm running two
> netbooks in the house, plus two regular Kindles, a Kindle Fire and a
> Nook HD+.
>
> Out in the shop I have an old range booster, another netbook, and
> another wifi device that makes my solar panel interface think it's
> plugged into a hardwired modem. I have no idea how I ended up with
> all that hardware, but that seems to be the way it goes.
>
>
> On 7/4/2013 11:04 AM, Dave C wrote:
>> The computer kind.
>>
>> OK, when we got DSL some time ago (probably seven or eight years ago)
>> we got whatever Westell wifi router that Verizon provided with the
>> service. It still works ok but it's slow and the range is pretty
>> pathetic. I think it's time for a replacement. If you go to
>> Amazon or Newegg there are a ton of routers and the reviews are all
>> over the place.
>>
>> So would anyone like to suggest a basic modern wifi and hardwired
>> router with decent range and throughput, and that won't take an EE to
>> set up?
>>
>> Thanks
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