Wireless help needed

Hello,

What do I need to do wireless broadband to my laptop??

We have broadband installed but its all wires at the moment, we really need a wireless function on one of the PC's.

 

Firstly your laptop needs wireless conectivity, it might have it already it might not. If not you can get a PCIMA wireless care to go in it, if your lappy has not wireless or PCIMA update that ancient laptop

Then you want a ADSL broadband router, which you probably have. So all you want is a wireless transmitter of some kind. If you want to tidy it up futher get an intergrated router/adsl modem and wirless transmitter from somewhere like broadbandbuyer.co.uk (this outfit are very good)

The whole kit kiboudle should not cost more than £100

As for setting it up, good luck, I put wireless in for a friend a week ago, I took my mac along which went straight on, and it took 40 minutes to get XP to accept it the most hilarious situation being the HP website reloading over and over with what we counted in the end was 40 windows before the laptop shut itself down hehe.

 

If you want to keep your existing adsl router you need an access-point and a pcmcia card.

At the end of the day it's probally easier to replace the router with one with wireless built in and a pcmcia card.

www.wifi-warehouse.co.uk

I have the DG834G, they work a treat.

 

They do have wireless, our lappys are 1 month old and cost a fair whack! I'll have to digest what youve said, thanks for the help.

 

In which case purchase this and you are sorted:

http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Sho...1&ProductID=1407&CategoryID=80&ShopGroupID=38

Its everything you need but will make your current broadband router redundant (you could flog it on ebay!)

Or you could get this, a bit like the above but built like a brick hit house:

http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Sho...=9&ProductID=856&CategoryID=65&ShopGroupID=38

Or if you want to utilise you current ADSL router you could get one of these, but be warned you are into more set up territory:

http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/ShopDetail.asp?ProductID=536

TBH I set up the first link as mentioned above for a friend at its dead easy, just put in you ISP user name and Password and for gods sake make sure you set it up with password WPA security otherwise any sod can use your broadband!

 

Errr no its not, it just extends the LAN of the router over the wireless network, its no harder to set up that than a combined adsl router/access-point, you just need to set up the SSID, wep or wpa, mac address access list, etc ...

 

Sorry just trying to help, also when things do go wrong and people like me who are not totally clues up are trying to discover the problem, its another thing you have to check.

Any how my advice was the first option and I would stick with that as it was a nice piece of kit to set up (I own the Draytek BTW)