Need some help

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Hello all we got my mum a laptop for xmas. Im connected to broadband through a router from my dads comp, i was wondering if you can also setup a wireless connection as well for my mums laptop and me and my dad stay connected through the cable, any help would be much appreciated

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 11:50 am

you can hard wire ones thru the router and then the laptop gets a wireless kit with a dongle and you sorted.

Check here for kit info

http://www.netgear.co.uk/wireless_pc_networkcard_rangemax.php

Joined: Oct 03, 2005 Posts: 45

well from that link freaky his mum would need the dual band PCMCIA adapter and possibly the main machine would need a separate network card to use the wireless option, it may actually be more efficient for both he and his dad to use a wireless router and channel the three machine thru that saves a lot of messing about really in my opinion. Very Happy

in which something like this >>http://www.netgear.co.uk/extra/h_wirelessrouter_wgt624.php would be the thing

Joined: Oct 19, 2005 Posts: 169 Location: Sheffiled

I agree with Dev it would be less hassle getting a wireless router.I have the netgear wireless router wgt624 and it works a treat with 3 pc,s mine bieng wired to the router.[/i]

Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 9:59 am

well either way i was on the right track and now i have sobered up a bit i know what i am talking about...hmmm or do i Razz

Community Founder Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 2383

I have tried 3 routers now and by far the best is Linksys, its a quality bit of kit!, I noticed they have the latest version at PC world for just £62 reduced from £120
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Joined: Nov 19, 2005 Posts: 57 Location: Cambridge

Get the Linksys (owned by Cisco, Strangely Netgear also owned by Cisco), Netgear is more complicated / harder to find configuration settings than Linksys is.

Tip:

Use an encryption key that you make up from hexadecimal numbers rather than a pass phrase because if you use different equipement from different manufacturers you will find that not all key generation is equal so a key generated from a pass phrase on a Netgear PCMCIA wireless card will not be the same as the same pass phrase generated key on a Linksys wireless router. So with 64 bit key you need about 10 hex characters, and with 128 bit key you need 26 hex characters, and so on.

Tip:

Unless you are hardwiring directly to the wireless router and you have the luxuary of a powerpoint in your loft, site the router there. The wireless signal prefers to travel through plaster and timber rather than brick or reinforced concrete.

If you do want to have hard wired connections you could still site the router in the loft but get hold of a WET54G and connect that to the router by wireless and connect a small switch to the WET54G and plug into that where-ever you place the wet54g (so it wirelessly links to the router in the loft but provides plugin connectivity at the gateway / bridge.

Lol and back to English...

I run 250 to 350 computers across a network across 3 sites on different floors using a combination of fibre optics, copper, and wireless access points (with node extenders (must not forget them!)), but point being most of the kit I use apart from a few bits are consumer level gear, so I hope my tips are still useful - if not intelligable.

Oh yeah I hope everyone had a nice holiday break.

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Community Founder Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 2383

Now this seems like a guy who knows his stuff! Wink

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