Difference between motherboards?

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Slimebeast said:

Wow, so somebody else is actually using wired internet. I thought I was the only one.

Problem is that I need to get internet access in two places in my house  simultaneously from the same ISP provider(and sometimes a child comes to visit and he always wants to hook up his phone or iPad or something to the internet and asks if we have "a node" or something. I don't even understand what that means.). So what should I do?

I'm thinking of this one:

ASUS RT-N56U Dual-Band 11n Router

Black Diamond, Gigabit LAN-WAN, USB x2, AP, 300+300Mbps Wireless-N

Is that a good product if I want good internet in my upper floor and bottem floor in my house?

Oh no, you're not alone. :) Wired is more reliable and I don't think anyone can deny that. At best, people can argue that WLAN is reliable enough.

You should probably get a wireless router for that. You can probably hook up your PC to it via wire so it's more reliable, and you should be able to connect other devices wirelessly. By that node he's probably meaning a WLAN point, i.e. a router to provide wireless internet access.

I don't personally have much experience with WLAN stuff aside from connecting by phone to whatever WLAN network is available. :P All the routers I know I've connected to (aside from the one I own now) were Buffalo, and that's the brand my WLAN adapters have been too, although I think I had one Linksys adapter too. According to a quick search, that Asus router has won some award in some Finnish computer magazine so it shouldn't be total garbage but on the other hand, on a forum users seemed to have contradicting opinions too. I can't really say much more about it. Its specs seem OK I think?

I'd really love to help more but my knowledge is pretty limited. I have a basic understanding of some important concept but for details, I always have to resort to Google. Basically I keep my knowledge at a level where I can comfortably search for the details I need, whenever I need.