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Originally Posted by Debsy42
Ok, got my laptop now, in fact sat in bed messing about with it but still no wiser as to the wireless route. Does my main pc have to be on for the laptop to get a connection  ?? I don't really want it to be as it's quite noisy  |
Answer to that is no but ony if you are using a Router as this will be providing the connection to the Net rather than the main PC.
The Main PC only needs to be on if you are using Connection sharing via the Main PC.
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Short term you can just plug the cable that usually goes to the PC from the modem into the laptop but you will need to reboot the modem so it ties itself to the card on that rather than the PC then repeat that process when reconnecting the main PC when you want to use that.
Hope that makes sense it's getting late LOL