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What do I need for wireless broadband

  • 04-03-2008 9:54am
    #1
    shawnee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭


    Hi I have wired broadband from eircom. I have a sony vaio laptop which is not wireless. I would like to upgrade my system to wireless. As far as I know, I need first to get a wireless modem and then I need a wireless card for the back of my laptop. Is this correct ? I know that the wireless modems are around 90 euro and the cards can be up to 40. I was looking at bt ones in ebay and they are only around 25 euro. Would these work with my system ? Is there much installation involved in this stuff ? Your help in this would be appreciated.

    ;)


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  • #2
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    shawnee wrote: »
    Hi I have wired broadband from eircom. I have a sony vaio laptop which is not wireless. I would like to upgrade my system to wireless. As far as I know, I need first to get a wireless modem and then I need a wireless card for the back of my laptop. Is this correct ? I know that the wireless modems are around 90 euro and the cards can be up to 40. I was looking at bt ones in ebay and they are only around 25 euro. Would these work with my system ? Is there much installation involved in this stuff ? Your help in this would be appreciated.

    ;)

    Ok, there's a wireless forum over there somewhere that would be more appropriate for this
    >

    Anyway, what make/model is the Eircom DSL modem? The vast majority of them already have wireless built into them. Same with the laptop - what make model? Unless it is a very old laptop (+4 years), it will have wireless already built in.

    So, chances are, you need to buy nothing.


  • #3
    bliger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 171 ✭✭bliger


    shawnee wrote: »
    Hi I have wired broadband from eircom. I have a sony vaio laptop which is not wireless. I would like to upgrade my system to wireless. As far as I know, I need first to get a wireless modem and then I need a wireless card for the back of my laptop. Is this correct ? I know that the wireless modems are around 90 euro and the cards can be up to 40. I was looking at bt ones in ebay and they are only around 25 euro. Would these work with my system ? Is there much installation involved in this stuff ? Your help in this would be appreciated.

    ;)

    First try to call to the Eircom costumer service , as far as i know you can get wireless modem for free.


  • #4
    shawnee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭shawnee


    My modem is a netopia and my sony laptop is around 5 years old and have checked it out and it does not have wireless.


  • #5
    -annex-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 163 ✭✭-annex-


    It should be possible to get antennae for the Netopia to enable it for wireless, if it's not too old. For the laptop the easiest method is to get an external USB wireless adapter. You can find them everywhere really. I got one in Argos last year, but most computer shops will sell them. Something like this:
    http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=179211

    If you don't want a big yoke sticking out of your laptop though you can get a PCMCIA wifi card, might be a bit handier. If you have a PCMCIA slot of course.


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