What is a good wifi base station I can get at a reasonable price?

Do you know what speed your wireless router is? I don’t know how much you know about wifi but there are a number of speeds a, b, g and draft n. a is no longer used and provided 54Mb/s over about a 15m range, b is rarely used (you might be on this) and is only 11Mb/s over a 45m range. g is the most common today and is 54Mb/s over a 45m range. Earlier this year n was finalised and became 600Mb/s over a 91m range. These routers go for anywhere between $100 and $300 (AUD). I reccomend checking out what your current router is (a/b/g/n) and upgrading. By the sound of it you’re on b which would be very painful. If you are using ‘g’ perhaps the signal strength is rubbish. A new router with a stronger signal would help

@joeysefika “A new router with a stronger signal would help” I think your right, that’s more than likely the problem.

We have a D-link wireless router it says on the side “airplus Xtreme g wireless router”

Yeah, so it’s ‘g’, the source of your problems is probably the signal strength of the router. I would recommend buying either a good ‘g’ router or future proofing yourself with a ‘n’ router. However be careful when buying because if you’re wifi card in your computer is only compatible with ‘a/b/g’ then n will have no effect on speed, just signal strength. Make sure the router you buy is a ‘a/b/g/n’ router, or even just ‘b/g/n’ or ‘g/n’

Okay thank you :) Do you have any suggestions on good ones? or should I just google it?

Just google it, or ask at your local computer shop. Anything by Linksys it pretty good, I’ve had bad experiences with D-Link in the past so I wouldn’t go D-Link.

Are you sure that you just don’t have a slow Internet connection at your house? Can you plug the computer into the router with a Ethernet cable? If it is still just as slow a new router isn’t going to help.

Yes, we have a computer wired to the internet (some kind of cable running from the back of the iMac to the modem) and it’s very fast.

Yeah im with @joeysefika. If good solid wireless internet is what you need then i would go with draft N signal. Belkin have a great wireless N modem/router for about $170 (AUD) and a lifetime guarantee. I have one of these and it provides excellent coverage over a large house, going through numerous walls and ceilings. But you get what you pay for in the modem department.

Dale