Wireless Internet for the Technologically Challenged

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.

Cobbydaler · 13-05-2007, 22:52

to the forums shootinstar

Yes, that's completely possible as long as the wireless kit is cable/dsl & not adsl. If you post the model number someone will be able to tell you...

Your wireless signal will depend to some extent on the construction of the house.

Make sure you set up security on the router/adapter. Plenty of people on here to help you with that if you need it...

v0id · 13-05-2007, 22:57

As long as your new property can receive virginmedia, just tell the installer where/how you want your services installed :/

shootinstar · 13-05-2007, 22:59

Hiya!!

The model number is USR5462.

And regarding security, I'll probably be asking for further advice on that at some point in the future. I don't really understand the installation manual or the advice Microsoft give.

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And regarding the property, as I've already said it can receive Virgin. And I will ask them to install it in the backroom, as I've already said. But I do know the layout of the property and anticipate that it will be difficult.

Druchii · 13-05-2007, 23:02

They should put the cabling and modem etc wherever you want, that is part of the install, you tell them where everything's going, and they do it.

They are after all professionals

shootinstar · 13-05-2007, 23:04

Hopefully they'll be able to install it directly where I want it so I'll have no messing about with wireless. I just think they are going to find it difficult... the house isn't built on two flat levels, its not your normal two-up-two-down.

Cobbydaler · 13-05-2007, 23:10

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Originally Posted by shootinstar

Hiya!!

The model number is USR5462.

That's a cable/dsl router, so it'll be fine with VM if you can't get the cable point put upstairs...