Do you use a router ?

Yes, we have a wireless router in our house. All four of us are often on the computer at one time! My children each have laptops provided by a local college's 'gifted & talented' honor's program for high school students. My husband has our older desktop computer and I have a laptop. As you say, it is so convenient to be able to sit anywhere to use the laptop!

You mean a wireless router. :) Yes, I have a wireless router for my laptop too. :D I love being on the laptop so much, I hardly find myself at my desktop! But my kids are also needing a computer more...so this has been very helpful. I like being able to sit in my room in the sitting area on my couch curled up with a blanket and just typing away. It is better than sitting in a hard straight chair at a desk.

Yes I have a router and it's very useful although I'm using a PC but it helps when I want to use my old PC too or if there's someone here who needs to use it..

No I just have a wireless keyboard and wireless mouse and a very comfy lazyboy chair in my den. This is actually the first time I have heard what a router is for. Sounds like a handy thing to have.

i do have a router at home, so we can access the internet at all of our computers and laptops i think its very good because more than one person can be on the internet at the same time which is very helpful and saves arguing

I do not have a router, however I have heard they are quite convenient. I need to check to see how much they cost. What I do have is a very long cable, (DSL) that extends almost to anyplace in my little teeny apartment. If I want it longer, I can add to it very easily.

I do use a router -- I just got a laptop for Christmas. Before that, I was stuck at the desk, which can be tedious.

i dont use router.

i use a router and i absolutely love it, i can't believe how long i use to sit at the desk before i got the router, now i am all over the house and when my son wants to ride his bike outside i can take my laptop with me.

I do have one, but I hardly ever use it. it´s not even plugged in right now. I don´t know why, I guess i am happy here at my desk and my cup of tea =)

No I don't. I just sit in the main room where the computer is, and work from here. I guess it is a good idea, but I have just never got round to it.

I don't use router, I'm only using a mini swith hub 8 ports, since router is a lot expensive than mini switch hub, and also I don't have any laptop, all my computer are desktop model. But I think router is very very cool, it do what switch hub done and also you don't need any computer to remain online to get remain connected to the internet, that's what I'm looking for actually.

I actually am using my neighbors wireless(we have talked about this and we are sharing the cost) she has 2 routers and I bought an adapter and I can use my laptop and desk top ,the laptop goes everywhere even out in the backyrad ..its great ...I can't wait til it gets warmer and I can sit outside while my daughter plays and I can work ...will be so cool I love the feedom of it too...

i used the router , i have share my adsl with some friends. so i needed to use router.and i like to use it.it 's can make we share the internet ,so we will spend little every day.and we can using the computer in the same time.

Well, I have a Linksys WRT54G that I picked up at Wal*Mart for around $30 or so...I had a little trouble with the installation, but Linksys has a great support department. They went as far as to get on a conference call with Dell, my laptop manufacturer, to get it working. I get good signal strength pretty much everywhere. I will almost always have 'Very Good' to 'Excellent' strength at 54Mbps, even between multiple floors. Good router, good price. I do have some of the weird connection problems that people are having in the thread below; but I'm not sure if I can pinpoint that on my router... It is bad for gaming, though. I used to get pings of like 60-70, but with the router it is a "kicked-off-server" high of around 90+, somtimes in the hundreds! More than once,I've just bypassed the router, much to the anger of my family on the laptop. Anybody know of a good gaming router? I'm willing to spend $$$, but only if it is the best thing since sliced bread or of similar importance.

We have to use a wireless router in our house, as we use three computers. As well, as that, my daughter, her husband and my two grandchildren all bring their laptops when they come to stay, so we would end up tripping over wires if we didn't have wireless.

the router i use to connect to my internet is not in my house but in the company that i got my cable throw it it better to me hhh maybe the light is not much here in my home .. but i think the speend is good without it and maybe i couldn't make it works well .as it work there :)

Yes,I use a router so my kids and I can be online at the same time on 2 different computers. I noticed a difference in the speed though, it slows my pc down when my kids are doing things like downloading music. When I asked about it, the people explained it as similar to 2 people drinking from one straw, If you use the straw alone, you get all the juice. Does anyone know if this is correct,or was I missinformed?

Yes I do have a router.I also fine it very helpful,I can go over the place in my house, even in the bathroom.Because I have a laptop. I also take my laptop to bed with me to,and I fall to sleep with it.

no not yet tried