N as stated will only work if you have the matching adapter for your PC.
As far as speed goes you won't gain anything by a faster connection as 54MB is a few times more than what anyone is offering for an internet connection, the only possible boost would be from LAN transfers (moving files between computers.)
As far as encyption WPA is superior to WEP. WEP can be cracked relatively easily at any point, WPA on the other hand is only easily defeated when you initially connect devices i.e.: I could sit outside your house and within a couple of minutes have WEP cracked, WPA on the other hand is reliant on a four way handshake to agree upon encrytpion and if I were outside the point you connected a device and captured those packets I could get in, if during my time sitting there nothing was connected my only other method is hard cracking.
Belkin or Netgear both perform about the same and are both easily setup. My preference would be a linksys flashed with dd-wrt, it isn't hard to do but probably something you wouldn't wan't to do but the results are great and there is so much more that you can make your router do.
As far as speed goes you won't gain anything by a faster connection as 54MB is a few times more than what anyone is offering for an internet connection, the only possible boost would be from LAN transfers (moving files between computers.)
As far as encyption WPA is superior to WEP. WEP can be cracked relatively easily at any point, WPA on the other hand is only easily defeated when you initially connect devices i.e.: I could sit outside your house and within a couple of minutes have WEP cracked, WPA on the other hand is reliant on a four way handshake to agree upon encrytpion and if I were outside the point you connected a device and captured those packets I could get in, if during my time sitting there nothing was connected my only other method is hard cracking.
Belkin or Netgear both perform about the same and are both easily setup. My preference would be a linksys flashed with dd-wrt, it isn't hard to do but probably something you wouldn't wan't to do but the results are great and there is so much more that you can make your router do.
