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Help setting up a wireless network Please

  • 11-10-2007 9:46pm
    #1
    iconnect
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 108 ✭✭


    Hi guys i am waiting on delivery of my first laptop and have a question
    I currrently have a normal broadband modem from Bt and want to set up a wireless network for the laptop. Is there any way of keeping the home pc connected to the normal modem and getting a wireless router to use with the laptop. This might be a stupid question but your knowledge would be appreciated. Thanks


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  • #2
    allen175
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭allen175


    if ur current modem has a ethernet connection (which it most likely does) you should just be able to connect any wireless router to it and then connect ur pc through a ethernet port on the wireless router.


  • #3
    iconnect
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 108 ✭✭iconnect


    allen175 wrote: »
    if ur current modem has a ethernet connection (which it most likely does) you should just be able to connect any wireless router to it and then connect ur pc through a ethernet port on the wireless router.

    Please dont laugh but is that the cable that looks slightly bigger than a phone connection and plugs into the card at the back of the pc By the way its not a usb cable ( i Know that much anyway)


  • #4
    brian_rbk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭brian_rbk


    Yep, ethernet cables look a little bigger than phone cables and have similar connections on them. Just position the router beside the modem ... connect the modem to the wireless router, and the desktop pc to the wireless router with an ethernet cable


  • #5
    Feelgood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,191 ✭✭✭Feelgood


    brian_rbk wrote: »
    Yep, ethernet cables look a little bigger than phone cables and have similar connections on them. Just position the router beside the modem ... connect the modem to the wireless router, and the desktop pc to the wireless router with an ethernet cable
    If you connect the Desktop PC to the Wireless router using an ethernet cable...that doesnt give you a wireless network?.


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