Re: How go wireless?

From: Richard G. Harper (rgharper_at_email.com)
Date: 09/02/04 

Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 19:17:47 -0400

http://www.wown.com/
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/

See the guides at these sites. 

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"George" <air1@bellsouth.net> wrote in message 
news:eUbauWSkEHA.3844@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> We have a few WinXP-pro PC's, 2 printers, and each of course has an NIC
> network card and they're all linked via a Linksys firewall router.  I'd 
> like
> to go wireless, was wondering if someone could help with the following
> questions.
>
>
>
> 1) Can I just remove all the NIC cards and replace them with wireless 
> cards?
> (Is it true that you would have one or the other, not both a NIC card and
> then a wireless card on top of that?)  If you install the wireless card,
> MUST you remove the wired NIC card.or can I (or should I) just plug some
> type of transceiver into each PC's existing NIC Ethernet port?
>
>
>
> 2) For the rounter/hub, do most people replace the wired one with a 
> wireless
> one or do you just ADD the wireless access point and KEEP the existing
> router?  Are there pro's and con's?
>
>
>
>
> 3) When you connect up a wireless system, is there a lot of WinXP setup, 
> or
> hardware or software setup (assuming I get something like Linksys 
> devices)?
> Or is it really fast plug-and-play, nothing to do but boot up.would 
> devices
> get whatever info they need from existing setups.that is, do I have to go 
> in
> and re-assign stuff like IP address and/or MAC addresses, etc.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> George
>
>
>
>
>

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