Wireless card and Wireless router

Hi,

I have a desktop with normal ethernet card (which connects to
internet) and am buying a laptop with wireless card.

1) Do i need to buy a wireless router to connect my laptop to the
desktop ? or can I buy one more wireless card for my desktop to
connect these to.

2) Does the wireless network card has the port to connect the ehternet
cable directly to it. This is the case where I want to connect my
laptop to the internet in the absence of my desktop.

Please give me your advice.

Best Regards,
Subramanya

Subra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a desktop with normal ethernet card (which connects to
> internet) and am buying a laptop with wireless card.
>
> 1) Do i need to buy a wireless router to connect my laptop to the
> desktop ? or can I buy one more wireless card for my desktop to
> connect these to.
>
> 2) Does the wireless network card has the port to connect the ehternet
> cable directly to it. This is the case where I want to connect my
> laptop to the internet in the absence of my desktop.
>
> Please give me your advice.
>
> Best Regards,
> Subramanya
>
Hi,
If you buy a wireless router, you can directly connect the desktop like
now to it and laptop can go wireless or wired to the rounter like
desktop. I am pretty sure your laptop has built-in Ethernet card as well
in combination with wireless. So you can mix wired, wireless on wireless
router to access Internet.

On Sat, 12 May 2007 11:27:33 -0700, Subra wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a desktop with normal ethernet card (which connects to
> internet) and am buying a laptop with wireless card.
>
> 1) Do i need to buy a wireless router to connect my laptop to the
> desktop ? or can I buy one more wireless card for my desktop to
> connect these to.
>
> 2) Does the wireless network card has the port to connect the ehternet
> cable directly to it. This is the case where I want to connect my
> laptop to the internet in the absence of my desktop.
>
> Please give me your advice.
>
> Best Regards,
> Subramanya

I am assuming that your desktop is connected directly to a DSL or cable
modem via an ethernet cable. If that is correct, then I advise you to
purchase a wireless router. Depending on your needs, a Linksys WRT54G
should suffice. Feel free to choose a wireless router that suits your
specific need(s). Anyway, after you purchase your wireless router, you
can then connect your alleged DSL/Cable modem to its WAN port via ethernet
cable. You can then attach your desktop to one of the 4 LAN ports via
ethernet cable. You will be able to surf the internet as you did before
but a little bit safer being that the wireless router (depending on the
model you purchase) will act as a firewall. After you purchase your
wireless ready laptop computer, you can initially use your desktop
computer to communicate with the wireless router (read the manual for
instructions) to set up its wireless feature (encryption, MAC Filtering,
wireless mode, etc). If your laptop comes with Microsoft Vista or Linux
Ubuntu, connecting wirelessly *should* be a snap. Anyway, I hope this
information is useful. Take care.

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Just Me, D