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Right well I got a laptop on saturday and I want to use it for wireless internet so I bought the router and now have probs as I can link it to my pc as it doesn't have the appropriate slot. Any suggestions?
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you can pickup an ethernet card for about a fiver from any good computer store, you'll need one to configur ethe router anyway.
You have a PC, Laptop and wireless router.
1. The Laptop has a built in wireless card. Is the laptop connecting to the router?
2. Does the router have any physical network ports, so you can connect the PC to it? If not are you trying to connect the PC Via the wireless?
3. Do you have a wireless PCI card for the PC, or even a USB one?
4. How old is the PC and what OS are you running?
5. What Laptop and router have you got?
Sorry for all the questions it the IT Techie in me :banghead:
1. The laptop can be connected to the router through a wire.
2. The router does have phsical network ports but I don't want it connected to the PC full stop.
3. I dont have any of the ones you said for the pc
4. Pc is like over 4 years old and runs windows 2000 (is that what is ment by OS)
5. Got a AOL netgear router and a toshiba (sp) laptop
sorry crap with computer stuff btw.
2. Ok if you not wanting the PC connected at all then thats not a problem. we can forget about the PC completely (unless you change your mind later)
5. Is this a router that AOL provide then?
With most wireless routers you have to make a cabled connection at some point (to the laptop or a desktop) in order to set up a basic wireless configuration. From then on you can use the wireless function and the only cable you would need in the router would be to the phone line (and the power cable).
Your laptop should have an ethernet port on it that you can use to configure the router. Hopefully it came supplied with a short patch cable to do just that with. See if you have a slot that matches the cable and read the instructions that came with the router as to how to set it all up.
Super.
On both card and router, you have a channel listing (think the default channel on netgear is 5 or it was on my one), check the setting on your laptops card matches that of the router. I assume that your setting it up with the router in the same room so you avoid any blackspots within the house.