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| Thread ID: 83639 | 2007-10-08 03:20:00 | Need help with a wireless lap-top connection. | bigmit37 (7537) | Press F1 |
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| 599224 | 2007-10-08 03:20:00 | Hey guys, I have comcast cable internet at my place. At first my brother's laptop was directly connected to the cable modem, but now I brought my desktop and have connected that directly to the cable modem. I am now trying to get his laptop a wireless connection. I figured that since we already have a cable connection he could pick it up through the wireless card that's built into his laptop. I check for wireless connections on his laptop and I connect to a "free public wifi connection". I have no idea if this is our internet connection. But I have "Excellent connection" and 11 mbps. The weird thing is, when I click on internet explorer (my brother doesn't let me install firefox), it seems as if the program doesn't work. I don't get the usual page when a web browser isn't working. "Windows is unable to connect...." I don't get this message. In fact nothing happens, when I write a website in the adress bar and click on go. The page remains completely white. My computer isn't frozen. Because I can open and close this program or any other programs. How can I fix this? And what is going on? Thank you |
bigmit37 (7537) | ||
| 599225 | 2007-10-08 03:28:00 | Sounds like your connecting to someone elses wireless network, a big no no. I'd suggest you start looking at wireless broadband routers, that way you get wired connections, a wireless AP and a hardware firewall between you and the internet. |
gcarmich (10068) | ||
| 599226 | 2007-10-08 04:59:00 | Ok, so you're obviously in the USA with Comcast. I dint read anywhere that you have a wireless router, simply a cable connection. THIS WILL NOT BE ENOUGH FOR A WIRELESS CONNECTION. You will need to get a wireless router suck as a Linksys or one with a modem inbuilt. Until then, you can connect to the free wi-fi network because it has obviously been set up for anyone to use. |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 599227 | 2007-10-08 18:10:00 | You will need to get a wireless router suck as a Linksys or one with a modem inbuilt. Hope that was a typo error. :p Bigmit: You need to have the following setup applied: Cable Modem - Wireless Router - Laptop Wirelessly | Desktop PC |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 599228 | 2007-10-09 01:46:00 | Hope that was a typo error. :p Bigmit: You need to have the following setup applied: Cable Modem - Wireless Router - Laptop Wirelessly | Desktop PC Ah ha, it was too :lol: I love Linksys routers. Highly recommended. |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 599229 | 2007-10-09 01:54:00 | The Linksys WRT54G would be perfect in such a situation :) especially if you can source an older one that will run DD-WRT or OpenWRT, otherwise get the WRT54GL which still supports the open source firmware. | Pete O'Neil (6584) | ||
| 599230 | 2007-10-09 03:13:00 | Though the way I look at it is, if you have a free wi-fi connection albeit not very secure, do you need to spend money to set all this up? If you do want to network between computers, just use a cross-over cable. | beeswax34 (63) | ||
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