Future Flyer
21st Nov 2006, 16:55
For the past 2 years I have been very happy with my desktop upstairs in the house using Orange (Wanadoo) 2 meg ADSL Broadband. At the moment there is a microfilter on each of the 3 phone lines used by a phone. The filter next to my desktop also has a phone cable running to a Thompson speed touch broadband modem supplied by Wanadoo. This modem then connects to the computer via USB.
Now then, my mum has bought a wireless laptop and would like wireless internet. I have bought a Netgear super wireless ADSL modem router. Is it the case that to set up a wireless network I need to replace my old modem and have this router connected to the phone line and then have the router connected to the desktop via an Ethernet cable and then configure this to my computer and then once set up the laptop will pick up the wireless signal? Or am I able (which is what I would prefer to do) to leave my desktop as it is and just connect the router to a microfilter downstairs and then have that sending out the wireless signal to the laptop while leaving my desktop working as normal with the wired modem?
Thanks
Now then, my mum has bought a wireless laptop and would like wireless internet. I have bought a Netgear super wireless ADSL modem router. Is it the case that to set up a wireless network I need to replace my old modem and have this router connected to the phone line and then have the router connected to the desktop via an Ethernet cable and then configure this to my computer and then once set up the laptop will pick up the wireless signal? Or am I able (which is what I would prefer to do) to leave my desktop as it is and just connect the router to a microfilter downstairs and then have that sending out the wireless signal to the laptop while leaving my desktop working as normal with the wired modem?
Thanks