Wireless advice/help please
 

Hi

I am not very technically minded and would appriciate some advice.

I have my desktop pc (Windows XP pro) and a Toshiba Sattelite laptop(Windows XP home)

I have Virgin Media Broadband with 100 (silver box) modem, up to 2mg broadband speed.

I am thinking of connecting my desktop and laptop wirelessly.
At present, I disconnect my desktop from the modem and then connect my laptop via the ethernet cable.

My laptop does not have a Wireless enabled network card so I think I would need a USB adaptor.

Does my desktop pc need to have a network card other than the ethernet one that currently connects my pc to my cable modem?

Any help/advice would be much appreciated.

Thank you

Church Mouse

Re: Wireless advice/help please
 

You will need a wireless router obviously. ;)

If you want to connect the desktop wirelessly then you'll also need a USB adaptor or PCI NIC for that.

If you're happy to continue connecting the desktop with a cable then the wireless router will have ethernet ports that you can plug a CAT5e cable into.

Re: Wireless advice/help please
 

Thank you

I am happy to connect my desktop to my cable modem with a cable (as is now), so if I buy a router with a usb adaptor for my laptop, am I correct in assuming, from your reply, that I would just need to buy a

Wireless router with a USB adaptor for the laptop and CAT 5e cable

No need to buy a PCI NIC for my desktop?

Thank you
for your help

Church Mouse

Re: Wireless advice/help please
 

You'd actually connect the desktop to the router LAN port with ethernet cable & the modem to the router WAN port with a cable. So you will need one extra cable & the USB adaptor for the laptop as well as the router.

Re: Wireless advice/help please
 

Thank you

Church Mouse