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shootinstar · 13-05-2007, 22:41

I have broadband internet through Virgin Media which connects directly to my PC via a ethernet modem. I do not have TV or a phone line.

Shortly, I am moving house. At the new house, the cable internet will come through the wall downstairs in the living room at the front of the house but the computer will be upstairs in the back room. The last owners of the house must of been with Telewest (aka Virgin) and so the relevant boxes and plugs are in the living room.

I will be asking virgin media to somehow run a cable from the outside, through the front room and somehow into the upstairs back room.

However, I have a strong feeling they are going to say this is not possible. And this is where I get confused...

I've been thinking about wireless internet. Now I do own a US Robotics Wireless Starter Kit (802.11g 54 Mbps Router and Adapter). What I want to know is, is it possible that...

Virgin Media enters my house via the downstairs front room. I then plug this into the Virgin modem, and plug this into the wireless router. Upstairs, the adapter is plugged into the back of my PC, and somehow my computer can connect to the router downstairs?? Without the router ever being plugged into my PC??

The reason I ask is, in the installation manual that comes with the router, it shows the router plugged directly into the modem AND my PC, and the adapter being used to connect additional laptops on a home network.

Please, in replies, can you keep them technologically simple? The above passage demonstrates my level of capability.... I don't understand technical very well.

13-05-2007, 22:41	#1
shootinstar Inactive Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 7	Wireless Internet for the Technologically Challenged I have broadband internet through Virgin Media which connects directly to my PC via a ethernet modem. I do not have TV or a phone line. Shortly, I am moving house. At the new house, the cable internet will come through the wall downstairs in the living room at the front of the house but the computer will be upstairs in the back room. The last owners of the house must of been with Telewest (aka Virgin) and so the relevant boxes and plugs are in the living room. I will be asking virgin media to somehow run a cable from the outside, through the front room and somehow into the upstairs back room. However, I have a strong feeling they are going to say this is not possible. And this is where I get confused... I've been thinking about wireless internet. Now I do own a US Robotics Wireless Starter Kit (802.11g 54 Mbps Router and Adapter). What I want to know is, is it possible that... Virgin Media enters my house via the downstairs front room. I then plug this into the Virgin modem, and plug this into the wireless router. Upstairs, the adapter is plugged into the back of my PC, and somehow my computer can connect to the router downstairs?? Without the router ever being plugged into my PC?? The reason I ask is, in the installation manual that comes with the router, it shows the router plugged directly into the modem AND my PC, and the adapter being used to connect additional laptops on a home network. Please, in replies, can you keep them technologically simple? The above passage demonstrates my level of capability.... I don't understand technical very well.