Wireless internet for my laptop
 

I have a centrino laptop, with wireless lan.

My internet comes through a LAN cable.

How can I make the internet connection on my laptop wireless, so I can use it anywhere in the house without having to trail the LAN wire?

by a link sys system...

what he said

More to the point, go to the place you bought the laptop from and ask them for a 'wireless router' :banana

Can you give a little more details?

Like what hardware I would have to buy, what I would connect to what, cost etc.

You need a base station for your laptop to wirelessly connect to

Thanks. Any idea on a good inexpensive wireless router?

I have 2 LAN internet connections at home, with diff IPs. Is it possible for a router to provide 2 wireless connectins to 2 diff computers at the same time?

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A linksys router will cost you about 120$. And they are well worth it.

Yes.

I'm not sure if there is any limit to the number of different computers that can use a single base station, but it's certainly far greater than 2.

I have 2 different lan cables connected to 2 diff computers. Both LAN cables provide internet on diff IPs. So the router would have to accept 2 LAN inputs and output 2 wireless LAn signals. Is that possible?

You need this, it's $100 at Best Buy.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....type=pr oduct

I live on wireless! Depending on where you live you can get real air wireless from verizon so you do not even need linksys router.

What do the 2 LAN cables you have now plug into? DSL? Cable?

They come from my ISP and plug into the LAN cards on my PC and laptop.

Do you have 2 seperate connections to your ISP for the 2 LAN cables?

Go buy the wireless router of your choice. I reccomend you buy an 802.11g router (not 802.11b) g is a lot faster but still backward compatible with b if thats what yoru laptop has. after you buy the router plug the cable from your cable/dsl modem into the wan/internet in port on the router. then plug your pc via a cable into the back of one of the probably 4 ports for wired pcs on the router. you probably wont have to do anythign to your laptop. As long as it is in range and you have windows xp it will owrk automatically. Alternatively you cna buy a USB wireless adapter for your pc if you don't want to run a wire.

Yes. 2 separate connections with 2 different IPs.

Will this work for 2 separate internet conections?

Is there a reason you have 2 seperate ISPs?

I have to laugh everytime someone suggests G because it's faster.

Here's the way I see it.

Yeah, I can talk over the network at 100 Mbps, but I don't need that. I need to be able to talk over the net as fast as I can go.

Now, I have DSL and Cable.

DSL is 3 Mbps down and 384 kbps (0.384 Mbps) up. Let's think about this. A 802.11b is 11 Mbps transfer up and down, and a 802.11g is 54 Mbps up and down. Wait, 11 Mbps would cover my connection with room to spare.

Cable is 4 Mbps down and 384 kbps up. Still, not enough to merit a 802.11g.

B (802.11b) is compatible with G (802.11g), so if you have B and you go somewhere that has G, you can jack in to their net.

What I have done is I have taken my DSL and Cable, bought seperate routers for each. ($60 x 2). I have 2 PCMCIA cards for my laptops, Wireless PCIs for 2 desktops, and one desktop is hardlined.

I set my systems to run on cable (what I'm paying out the ass for), and in the event I lose connection to comcast, I switch over to sbc global, no downtime (except for the desktop that's hardwired to comcast, and all that would take is moving the plug from one router to the other -- they're stacked).

If I'm out both SBC and Comcast, I take the day off. Hasn't happened yet.

:2 cents:

There must be else I wouldnt be wasting money on two. So is it possible for me to get wireless on both ISPs with one router or not?

Go to CompUsa or Best Buy...Buy a Wireless G Linksys Broadban d Router , plug your DSL or CABLE ethernet into the uplink of it and reboot your laptop and your online, anywhere in the house, in your back yard they work real well

So what is the reason for having 2 ISPs?

Translation of the above:

Don't ask me questions that would enable you to help me more. I am too lazy to find the info out myself from the Net or by asking in my local electronics store. I just want you to lay it all out for me on a plate. Then I will fuck off without even thanking you for wasting your time. :glugglug

Wireless G does not make your internet connection any faster...it is only better for sending data accross your OWN network at a faster rate.
there is no provider for home that has speeds higher than 3 MBps
so the wireless B is just fine.
Now if you are transferring files between 2 machines on your Network then G will make that much faster. You must remeber however since G is backwards compatible to B if you are using a B wireless card then you will be limited to the 11Mbps.



ToonLogos .. first you ask people a question that makes you sound like you have ZERO clue about networking...then you get an attitude when BRISK asks you why you need 2 ISP's.. If you want help... usually being nice about it helps!!!




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Thanks for the responses. I wasnt developing an attitude sorry it came off that way.

I have two ISPs, one that connects to my desktop and another on my laptop, I conduct two different businesses on 2 different machines. Besides that there is something in my internet connections about binding to some MAC address on the network card that allows one connection to be only used on one computer.

So is there a way a single wireless router will get me 2 separate ISPs wirelessly to 2 different machines? Or will I need 2 separate routers?

2 Routers, unless you can find one router with 2 WAN sockets. I haven't checked on this, but I doubt it would be economical.

Just set each sys to jack in to the appropiate link and you're okay. (You can change the WLAN order of preference.).

Oks 2 routers seems the only route.