broadband questions

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im hoping my exchange will come enabled this month (just needs activation)
I cant get a straight answer out of eircom regarding a specific date but iv been told this month but we know what eircom are like

anyway

iv no phone point in my games room but there's a couple in the house alright. Is there any point of installing a phone point in my room or will a wireless router do the same job? Is there any difference between phone point and wireless router(whats better is what i mean)

forgive me I dont know much about this stuff

yuloni

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cheers for the reply Condi

your right i hope to be using my ps3 and laptop on it
my house has just standard phone cord, im a bit confused on the majority of your post

what i thought would happen is eircom upgrade the phone sockets and i hook the wireless router up to it (so Ethernet cable from phone socket to router) and that would send the signal upstairs to me room

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regarding the engineers working at the exchange they dont know either, they're waiting for activation so office stuff

yuloni

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ninjasurfer1

google power plugs if u don't want to use wifi or if u're too far from the router.otherwise, as condi said, wifi should be fine.

pizzahead77

ninjasurfer1 wrote: »

google power plugs if u don't want to use wifi or if u're too far from the router.otherwise, as condi said, wifi should be fine.

I think you mean Home Plugs rather than power plugs

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thanks for the help lads so far

just another 2 question

if i can get broadband, i would hope to play online games and download a few stuff so the cap must be high

what eircom package & speed would be good for gaming?

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what providers will come to my exchange? Im presuming vodafone will be there, anyone else ?