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| 457156 | 2006-05-23 08:40:00 | Hi guys She Who Wears the Pants in the House has just decided she wants to be able to connect with her new laptop (yeah, schoolteacher, wireless installed) at home too but she does not want to move upstairs (to the desktop PC), she wants wireless "like our friends" downstairs. Now for a noob like me this is greek - so I searched PF1 and I searched via Google, but there is nowhere a guideline that is simple enough for an old noob like me. Any-one of you know of such a guideline or can offer plain, easy-to-follow steplike advice? (WinXP, Xtra 10 GB BB, P3 2000 Mhz). I faintly remember something like this in an older PCWorld but I don't have it any more. The older PF1 members will remember me trying to fix her old lappie with disastrous consequences, so this time it should happen without any "buggerup". Also, I presume I will need to buy some stuff to install on the desktop PC (the lappie is already bluetooth capable, whatever that means). Please don't flame me, I know this has been asked before and there are lots and lots of threads about it, but none of them answered my questions. Thanks in advance sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 457157 | 2006-05-23 09:34:00 | I read a very funny post 1 time on a UK forum about a guy who's Better Half had made some decisions base purely on cosmetic look regarding their PC in the lounge. Lucky guy was very estatic has he was looking at some flash gear...LOL. Some of the descriptions he came out with were brilliant. Anyway, you wish to setup a wireless network so her indoors came flow arounf the house connected to the WWW. I couldnt quite understand if you have a wireless router already or not?. If so model, then we can guide you thru the pages. With routers, you use your internet browser to connect to it to configure using its IP address. If you dont already have a wireless router we will need to point you to a suitable model. I usually use Linksys for my staff, however, there is a chipset shortage, so perhaps the '3com Officeconnect ADSL wireless 11g Firewall Router', LOL, mouthfull.... I have 1 in front of me now I have configured for the bosses home network. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 457158 | 2006-05-23 09:42:00 | You don't want Bluetooth, you want Wifi/802.11 - if it's a new laptop the odds it has it are high. Either buy a wireless ADSL router for a coupla hundred bucks - simplest and easiest option. No mucking about really, put in username, password, away ya go. Secure the wireless with Mac lockdown or WEP which will be easily covered in the manual. Or get a wireless PCI card, chuck it in your main PC and set up internet connection sharing, though main PC will have to be on for her to browse. |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 457159 | 2006-05-23 20:35:00 | Solmeister, no I've got nothing - She Who Decides decided this yesterday. In the past I've tried to "fix" her lappie and due to my "bugger ups" the pain wasn't that bad, I just couldn't stop the blood. This time I thought I would be "innovative" and ask the experts on this fine forum. (It's also true that I've accepted my place in life - once you accept that, it makes life so much easier, no fights, nothing - you just say "yes dear" and everything is honky dory). LOL Ninja, you saying all I need is a wireless router. B*gger me, then it's going to be a piece of cake (but I remember saying that the previous times, the pain oh the pain). Guys, thanks for that, much appreciated. sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 457160 | 2006-05-24 09:39:00 | I presume you already have a router if you have broadband in which you only need an wireless access point unless the router has only one ethernet port (unless you use the usb for the desktop pc). Confused yet? I was diagnosing a network problem for a client today and explained as I went. I may as well have said nothing cos it was a load of bollocks to him. | dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 457161 | 2006-05-25 00:55:00 | Just last night i received my shiny new TP-Link TL-WR642G wireless access point. I put in all the relevant i.p addresses and set security to WEP(my laptop wireless card doesnt support wpa/wpa2 :( so i coulndt choose wpa and its only 802.11b) and turned off the broadcasting of the bssid. now people cant see my network with normal windows programs (unless your one of "those" and have aircrack etc running on windows/linux) and as soon as i replace the wireless card with 802.11a/b/g ill have WPA encryption which you'll knocj your socks off trying to get passed it. MAC address spoofing isnt toooo hard, and i.p spoofing is even easier. Sum up, wireless has its plus' but will never beat copper and neither will fibre. :thumbs: |
Tricks_drummer (6408) | ||
| 457162 | 2006-05-25 00:56:00 | I presume you already have a router if you have broadband in which you only need an wireless access point unless the router has only one ethernet port (unless you use the usb for the desktop pc). Confused yet? I was diagnosing a network problem for a client today and explained as I went. I may as well have said nothing cos it was a load of bollocks to him. Yea thats the problem with the computer illiterate |
Tricks_drummer (6408) | ||
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