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Wireless card and Wireless router

Hi,

I have a desktop with normal ethernet card (which connects to internet) and am buying a laptop with wireless card.

1) Do i need to buy a wireless router to connect my laptop to the desktop ? or can I buy one more wireless card for my desktop to connect these to.

2) Does the wireless network card has the port to connect the ehternet cable directly to it. This is the case where I want to connect my laptop to the internet in the absence of my desktop.

Please give me your advice.

Best Regards, Subramanya

Reply to
Subra
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Hi, If you buy a wireless router, you can directly connect the desktop like now to it and laptop can go wireless or wired to the rounter like desktop. I am pretty sure your laptop has built-in Ethernet card as well in combination with wireless. So you can mix wired, wireless on wireless router to access Internet.

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Tony Hwang

I am assuming that your desktop is connected directly to a DSL or cable modem via an ethernet cable. If that is correct, then I advise you to purchase a wireless router. Depending on your needs, a Linksys WRT54G should suffice. Feel free to choose a wireless router that suits your specific need(s). Anyway, after you purchase your wireless router, you can then connect your alleged DSL/Cable modem to its WAN port via ethernet cable. You can then attach your desktop to one of the 4 LAN ports via ethernet cable. You will be able to surf the internet as you did before but a little bit safer being that the wireless router (depending on the model you purchase) will act as a firewall. After you purchase your wireless ready laptop computer, you can initially use your desktop computer to communicate with the wireless router (read the manual for instructions) to set up its wireless feature (encryption, MAC Filtering, wireless mode, etc). If your laptop comes with Microsoft Vista or Linux Ubuntu, connecting wirelessly *should* be a snap. Anyway, I hope this information is useful. Take care.

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Doug Jamal

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