Question about wireless routers

I have a Belkin router that I got for about $30 or $40 at Staples, and it works fine in my smallish apartment. The first one I had crapped out, but it came with a lifetime warranty, so I called Belkin and they replaced it. Haven't had any problems since.

My father-in-law has that Linksys everyone is posting, and it seemed to work well when I was at his house for Christmas.

And you should definitely password protect it. My internets are down right now, so I'm stealing someone else's wireless. You don't want some chump siphoning your bandwidth downloading music or porn.

 

We've got the Linksys in the Irish household. Aside from the aforementioned occasional reboot, which takes, like, 5 seconds, it works great. I'd buy it again.

 

Music, yes. Porn, not so much.

 

This is the exact router I'm using and I've been very happy with it. And setting it up was very easy - much easier than other routers I've used.

 

Too easy, coffee man. Too easy.

 

Stupid question time....The wife and I are thinking of ditching the home phone and just using cellphones and wireless internet. To get wireless, what do you have to do to set it up other than buying and setting up the router? Do you need to go through an ISP, or is the router enough?
I'm fairly ignorant on these matters, so please have mercy on my soul.

 

You need a phone line for DSL. Don't for cable modem.
And, to go totally wireless, you'll just need a wireless wi-fi card from your cell phone provider. No router, no modem. But, expensive.

 

Bright House does high speed Internet very well. Too bad they suck at TV. Kept their Internet service, but the TV comes from DirecTV.