Extra telephone cable connection to NTL Wireless Broadband ?

aoa321

Hi all,

A query for those of you who have a wireless NTL Broadband connection ....

I've had NTL Broadband installed in my house and I'm very happy with it. The setup is a wire from the wall of my house into a modem. The modem is in turn connected to a little transmitter/receiver that sits on top of the television and NTL gave me a card in my laptop that acts as wireless modem, so I have a wireless connection on my laptop that works very well.

On the back of the transmitter/receiver that sits on top of the television there are slots that look as if they would take an ordinary telephone cable.

So my question is ... would it be possible to run a telephone cable from my old desktop into the back of this transmitter/receiver and avail of Broadband, although obviously it wouldn't be wireless.

The reason I ask is that I have large files on my old desktop PC that I would like to be able to copy up to some server space I have available to me on the internet and then download onto the new laptop. I don't want to go and buy the wireless kit for the desktop PC because it's ancient and it's almost impossible for me to get anything working on it at this stage - the files I want to copy are quite large and it could take hours to do each set over my old dial-up connection.

Any advice would be appreciated.

aoa

aidan_dunne

The transmitter/receiver you speak of sounds like wireless broadband router with built-in wired ethernet switch as well. Those "telephone-looking slots" on the back of it aren't actually for a telephone cable, they're for ethernet network cables. They look very similar but are actually a little bigger than a telephone jack, you'll find.

What you need then, instead, is not a telephone cable but a CAT5 ethernet network cable and set up a wired network between it and the desktop PC. If the desktop doesn't have a network card or port already, you can pick one up that just slots into a PCI slot on the motherboard. They're fairly cheap as well for, say, a standard 10/100 card.

Install the network card, plug one end of your CAT5 patch cable into the port on the card, plug the other end into one of the ports on the back of the router and then setup a network between your desktop and laptop via the router/switch to share or transfer your files between them and to share the broadband connection between the two computers as well. Plenty of tutorials on the net about how to set up a network and how to share internet connections.

Hope that helps.

aoa321

yes that helps a lot

thanks for taking the time to reply, at least I know where to start now