Wireless Broadband connections - a begginers question

Please bear with me here and forgive my complete ignorance on the subject.
I'm looking for a little advice on wireless connection to the net.

I'm about to buy a laptop and I want to go online from home using a wireless
Broadband connection. What do I need to look for? The laptops I'm looking
at feature 'Integrated Wireless Lan 802.11g' but do I need anything else
like a router or is that it? Are there any disadvantages using a wireless
broadband connection regarding the speed of the connection?

Thanks in advance for your help.

yes all you need is a is a router
"vrem" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Please bear with me here and forgive my complete ignorance on the subject.
> I'm looking for a little advice on wireless connection to the net.
>
> I'm about to buy a laptop and I want to go online from home using a
> wireless
> Broadband connection. What do I need to look for? The laptops I'm looking
> at feature 'Integrated Wireless Lan 802.11g' but do I need anything else
> like a router or is that it? Are there any disadvantages using a wireless
> broadband connection regarding the speed of the connection?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>

"vrem" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> Please bear with me here and forgive my complete ignorance on the
> subject. I'm looking for a little advice on wireless connection to the
> net.
>
> I'm about to buy a laptop and I want to go online from home using a
> wireless Broadband connection. What do I need to look for? The
> laptops I'm looking at feature 'Integrated Wireless Lan 802.11g' but
> do I need anything else like a router or is that it? Are there any
> disadvantages using a wireless broadband connection regarding the
> speed of the connection?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>


You can get a wireless router or you can get a wired router and a wireless
AP and plug the WAP into the wire router. To me, you're better off with a
wire router and a WAP as wireless technology is constantly changing while
the old solid as a rock wire technology never changes.

You can also just get a wireless NIC and put into the machine that has the
Internet connection and use ICS and AD-HOC mode on both wireless NIC(s) and
share resources between machines and have the laptop share the Internet
connection.

The choice is yours to make.

Duane

Duane Arnold wrote:
> "vrem" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> news:(E-Mail Removed):
>
>
>>Please bear with me here and forgive my complete ignorance on the
>>subject. I'm looking for a little advice on wireless connection to the
>>net.
>>
>>I'm about to buy a laptop and I want to go online from home using a
>>wireless Broadband connection. What do I need to look for? The
>>laptops I'm looking at feature 'Integrated Wireless Lan 802.11g' but
>>do I need anything else like a router or is that it? Are there any
>>disadvantages using a wireless broadband connection regarding the
>>speed of the connection?
>>
>>Thanks in advance for your help.
>>
>>
>
>
>
> You can get a wireless router or you can get a wired router and a wireless
> AP and plug the WAP into the wire router. To me, you're better off with a
> wire router and a WAP as wireless technology is constantly changing while
> the old solid as a rock wire technology never changes.
>
> You can also just get a wireless NIC and put into the machine that has the
> Internet connection and use ICS and AD-HOC mode on both wireless NIC(s) and
> share resources between machines and have the laptop share the Internet
> connection.
>
> The choice is yours to make.
>
> Duane
>
can I suggest the linksys wag54g gateway, this has an inbuilt adsl
modem, and wireless router in one package, there are others similar,
but if you just buy the router you will still need to get a modem

cheers, Jim

> You can also just get a wireless NIC and put into the machine that has the
> Internet connection and use ICS and AD-HOC mode on both wireless NIC(s) and
> share resources between machines and have the laptop share the Internet
> connection.

And just in case you don't know, ICS stands for "internet connection
sharing", and is part of the windows operating system. Ad-hoc means that
the network is peer-to-peer (no server; all computers are equal).

For a long time my computers were setup this way. The advantage is you
do not need to buy extra hardware like a router. The disadvantage is
that the computer which has the internet connection has to be on AND
someone logged on in order for the networked computer(s) to use the
internet.

Both ways tend to be easy to setup.

HTH
Damase

Cheers for the replies. Very helpful.

"Damase" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> > You can also just get a wireless NIC and put into the machine that has
the
> > Internet connection and use ICS and AD-HOC mode on both wireless NIC(s)
and
> > share resources between machines and have the laptop share the Internet
> > connection.
>
> And just in case you don't know, ICS stands for "internet connection
> sharing", and is part of the windows operating system. Ad-hoc means that
> the network is peer-to-peer (no server; all computers are equal).
>
> For a long time my computers were setup this way. The advantage is you
> do not need to buy extra hardware like a router. The disadvantage is
> that the computer which has the internet connection has to be on AND
> someone logged on in order for the networked computer(s) to use the
> internet.
>
> Both ways tend to be easy to setup.
>
> HTH
> Damase

Duane Arnold <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> To me, you're better off with a
> wire router and a WAP as wireless technology is constantly changing
> while the old solid as a rock wire technology never changes.
>

This is true, but lately it seems that the routers are cheaper than the
access points.