Re: getting broadband to the laptop

the staring frogs of Southern Iberia wrote:
After years of dial up and kids in my ears, cable access has arrived at this house. It is presently hooked up to the desktop through the cable modem provided and a ethernet cord to the back of the tower. My laptop is used primarily at work but it travels with me back and forth and I use it at night in a room about 30 feet away from the desktop.
Any suggestions on getting the new broadband speed to the laptop either through a wireless hookup or wired. I assume if it's wireless I'll need a router after the modem and a network card for the laptop?
Will I need a network card for the desktop also or can that be left on the ethernet cable?Have googled a lot lately on this but it's worse than trying to figure out car insurance!



A simple solution is to get a wireless router and a wireless PC card for the laptop. Wireless routers always have ports for wired connections as well as the wireless function. So your desktop plugs into one of the router's wired LAN ports and the laptop receives signals from the wireless function.

You plug the cable from the cable modem to the WAN port of the router.

The best practice is to power down all PCs, the cable modem and the router. Then connect everything. Then power up the cable modem, wait about 45 seconds, then power up the router, wait about 45 seconds, then power up your desktop. The desktop should now have access to the Internet as before.

When you power up your laptop, you will have to use the network wizard to set it up for Internet access.

Good luck, jimbo
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