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Can anyone help with wireless connection

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McB

McB Report 11 Jan 2005 18:49

Can any one help. I have bought a Belkin wireless ASDL router & combined modem, when you open the box you find guess what wires. You have to plug an ethenet lead in the back of the modem and connect this to the back of your computer, however because my system is a long way from the first telephone point this is not possible ,is there a modem/router that is completly wireless apart from the phone connection

Rus&

Rus& Report 11 Jan 2005 18:54

Hi brian, yes there is.Its called gigabyte wireless router, u need a wireless adapter as well they connect via radio waves.The adapter is what goes in the back of your pc.Total cost will be around £80 for medium quality.Any good computer supplier should have it. If you need any further help email me. rus

McB

McB Report 11 Jan 2005 19:06

Thanks Rus & Kaz Will i be able to connect other pc's and laptops to different websites at the same time? Brian

McB

McB Report 11 Jan 2005 19:13

Hello Peter I have the ADSL Modem with wireless G Router Model no F5D7632-4 I don't know if this is the same as yours but i cannot see how you switch between cable or wireless Brian

Rus&

Rus& Report 11 Jan 2005 20:07

hi brian you will need to get 1 network card for each item you wish to use,you can then connect to the net with all your pc's, russ

McB

McB Report 11 Jan 2005 20:32

Thanks to all of you kind folk who have taken the time to help , i will have a go at setting it up at the weekend Brian

John

John Report 11 Jan 2005 20:54

Brian, We have BT Voyager wireless plus one wired socket. 2 Laptops, 2 PC's and Playstation all go through it from any where in the house. You can have up to 10 connections but bandwith gets affected if you have too many on at once. Don't know what we did without it. I don't us my network card on the pc just use a USB Wireless Adapter. The laptops just use PCMCIA plus in adapter. john

POSITIVE Pauline

POSITIVE Pauline Report 12 Jan 2005 19:23

We too have the Belkin outfit. However we found it wouldn't work unless we downloaded Windows Service Pack 2. This we did, but then we found that other things were corrupted and wouldn't work properly. Anybody else come across this? Pauline - who doesn't really understand this too much, but knows there was a problem :-)