wireless home networking question
 

OK, heres what I want to do. I have a laptop at home, and just got a cable hi speed connection installed into my place. Right now im just running a cat 5 cable from my cable modem into my laptops NIC card and its working fine, but I want to go wireless so i can bring the lappy anywhere in the house and be connected. I was looking at an all-in-one cable modem/wireless router that toshiba has, looks like it would do the trick...kinda pricey though at 200 bucks...my question is, if i just buy a wireless router will i be able to accomplish what im trying? what im confused about is if i need another desktop computer to connect to the broadband and then network to my laptop, or if i can just attach a router directly to the cable modem and only use my laptop with it. any help or points in the right direction will be appreciated.

Linksys works well with this kind of setup.

http://www.linksys.com/products/prod...id=35&prid=544

go to walmart motorola has a complete package for a desktop and a laptop for something like $100 :)

I got the D-Link Extreme Air setup, it rocks.
Just plug the cable modem into the wireless router.

Then get their wireless card for your laptop, about $50. It works perfectly.

Just get a wireless router and wireless card.

D-Link is really good :)

It should cost you less than $80

wireless routers have 4 cat 5 ports in them, plus you can have unlimited wireless devices

is that what your asking?

dont get it all in one unit so you can upgrade part of it easier.