has my mate been ripped off?
 

My mate has had Blueyonder for ages now and she has a pc in her sons bedroom. So blueyonder is installed here. Shes just bought a laptop for here daughter an intel celeron m with wireless. She has bought a wireless router and a laptop wifi card. I said to her "Why have you got a card the laptop has it built in. She says the man at the shop said because you have blueyonder you need one of these. Has she been ripped off?:erm::Yikes:

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Which laptop is it? If it has built in wifi it's not needed - but if it's a USB of course it could be used on another PC.

Nice sig :D :LOL: - almost worth repping!

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Hoi! I'm the only cocky loudmouth funny 13 year old on this forum - rep me! :Yikes: :p: :D

Looks like she might've been mate, sorry

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I would mate - but I need to sl*t it around more!

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Certainly! One red rep coming up... ;)

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Certainly looks like it to me, if the laptop has built in wireless (which almost all do these days) then she doesn't need a seperate wireless card as well.

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Lol.

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Take it she has a cable router as well as a wifi card, integrated or otherwise, on each PC?

The only difference in networking terms between DSL and Cable is that Cable modems are locked to the network, DSL ones aren't - which shouldn't be a problem so long as the DSL modem isn't USB. Which it tends to be :rolleyes: In essence, there is no difference between a wireless card for a PC or LT whether or not it connects via a router to cable, or a router to DSL.

Either she's misinterpreted the salesman or been ripped off, but she should be able to get a refund if it's not needed- but let's ascertain exactly what she DOES have and work out what's needed first.

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so you dont need a anything else for havin more than 1 person on blueyonder

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You need a wireless cable router and a wireless card for each PC. Unless you can connect some via cable to the router- if they're close enough and static there's no need to go wireless.

Understand?

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Did she tell the salesman she had a built in WIFI with her laptop? If not he may have just assumed she would need the card. Get her to take it back for a refund as long as it's not been opened.

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Before taking that back, make sure the router isn't an ADSL one, or that'll need taking back as well!

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Centrino chipset does not always include the wifi functionality. So it is possible that the chipset doesn't have built in and that you did need the wireless card

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Not all the laptops in PC World or Currys have WiFi facility inbuilt either...

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quite a few bundled w/routers with usb w/adaptors available, its just possible the bundle was cheaper or same price as just the router

Giving the salesman loads of credit here though, which is probably misplaced

EDIT : but those are more often than not ADSL units, so that woudl still be wrong

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Might want to actually tell us what laptop she has (specific model) so we can see if it has any form of WI-FI built in but since you have remained quiet on the matter after posting your remarks in the orignal post I'm thinking that either you have:
a. Made an error in thinking she was ripped off and the laptop had no built in capabilities as described
or
b: forgotten your thread here ;)