Follow up: I'm at our second home and using the ancient Linksys without any
problems. I sat it on my PC desk on the second floor, it's about 10' away
from a window with a view of my shop which is 90' away. Both structures are
wood' the shop isn't insulated, I don't know about the house (it's very old
and we don't know much about the construction and updates).
I can surf the net and check email from the shop with no problems.
Set up was mostly automatic but I never saw an option for establishing a
passwrod to gain access. I'll have to set aside some time to go through the
User Guide I downloaded and figure out how to do that.


"William Andersen" <wgander@cox.net> wrote in message
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> Thanks.
> I'm not a gamer, just do email and surf the web. I'll give it a try. If
> it's too slow, I'll buy another.
>
> "Gordon" <gordo432xRemove@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:5b6dnQ74v_O9E3vanZ2dnUVZ_j6dnZ2d@comcast.com. ..
>> Eric wrote:
>>> "William Andersen" <wgander@cox.net> wrote in message
>>> news:ZO%Ej.7722$6J3.1633@newsfe13.phx...
>>>> I've been using a ZyXel P-330W for ?: a couple of years or so.
>>>> I recently got a freebie Linksys BEFW11S4 that I plan to use in our
>>>> second home this Summer.
>>>> I tried comparing the specs and didn't see any difference, but I
>>>> don't understand the real geeky stuff.
>>>> Is there any real difference between these two routers?
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Your Linksys BEFW11S4 is an old 802.11b-only router that has a lot of
>>> known issues. It also only supports WEP, which isn't secure.
>>
>> I use that router, and it also supports WPA. The router should work fine
>> in a second home unless the OP wants to do lots of local file transfers
>> across his network. For Internet use, the router should be fine.
>>
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