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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: wightrob on October 11, 2005, 09:56:53 AM

Title: Wireless connection to a wired network
Post by: wightrob on October 11, 2005, 09:56:53 AM

I have a home wired network connected to a Lynksys router / ADSL modem.
My wife has a laptop and would prefer to connect to the home network and subsequently, the net with a wireless connection.
Does anyone know of a device which will connect to the network that will enable a wireless connection from a laptop without the need to buy a new wireless router?

Title: Re: Wireless connection to a wired network
Post by: dl65 on October 11, 2005, 11:44:21 AM

wightrob....... Will the laptop accept a PCMCIA ethernet adapter ....then just plug into the existing router ?
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1224098&CatId=588

dl65  ::)

Title: Re: Wireless connection to a wired network
Post by: wrwss on October 11, 2005, 10:56:38 PM

Is your linksys router NOT wireless? If not then you must have one and the laptop must either have built in wireless card or a pcmcia wireless receiver

Title: Re: Wireless connection to a wired network
Post by: wightrob on October 12, 2005, 02:44:48 AM

Thanks for your reply dl65.  The laptop is a fairly new Sony Viao and has a built in Ethernet adaptor.  We have connected to the home network using a patch cable.  This works fine.  The problem is my wife wants to use the laptop from anywhere in the house without hard wires.  I think that the  laptop has built in wireless connecvtivity.  My idea was to plug a wireless sender/receiver into a network port to eliminate the cable connection to the PC.

Title: Re: Wireless connection to a wired network
Post by: wightrob on October 12, 2005, 02:52:39 AM

Thanks for your reply wrwss.
The Linksys router is not wireless, it's a wired model(AG041(UK)).   The wired network works fine for the rest of us but my wife just feels too tied down with cables!
I have explained in my reply to dl65 what I want to do to avoid buying a new router as these things are not cheap on this side of the pond.

Title: Re: Wireless connection to a wired network
Post by: GX1_Man on October 12, 2005, 08:29:37 AM

if that router does not even send a wireless signal, I can't imagine a cheap way to pick one up.

Title: Re: Wireless connection to a wired network
Post by: wrwss on October 12, 2005, 10:30:37 AM

You will have to purchase a wireless router for the laptop to connect wirelessly to the internet. You will have to put it in place of your current gateway. Check on ebay for a wireless router, you will save alot of money.