Wireless Networking.

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Ok, a while back my dad bought a 'wireless networking' kit. Now supposedly this was supposed to allow him to set up a wireless home network, namely between the Windows Me computer upstairs and the Windows XP computer downstairs.

Nor for ages he, and occasionly I (I can't stand the ME computer anymore :banghead:) have been trying to set up the newtork but with no success. So yet again I tried again today.

And then I realised something.

My dad has bought a '54Mbps Netgear Wireless Access Point' and a '54Mbps Netgear Wireless USB 2.0 Adaptor'.

Shouldn't there have been a router?
 
Well this seems like a good thread for me to ask a wireless networking question of my own.
I want to purchase a wireless network so that I can have my internet on both my home PC and my laptop.

Do I need the router, PCI card and the special laptop card, or just the laptop card and the router (connect the router into the PC)?
 
you either need:

Broadband modem + Wireless access point + laptop card + PCI card

Or

Wireless router + laptop car + PCI card

There's plenty of useful information available on www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk That's where I found out what I needed.
 
:lol:

Its confusing as hell.

First you start setting up the acess point and you thik great get this out teh way first, and then half way through they say to connect the other one, and that one says to do the other one first. AAAAARRGHHH!

We gota get someone in to do this.
 
@ExigeExcel

Well, you don't NEED a router, but it certainly is suggested because some ISPs don't let you have more than one IP and it's more secure to have the router. Also if you want to be able to see the computers on a network AND be able to go online at the same time, you'll need the router.

Good luck setting up the network.
 

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