Am i missing something ?

I have ntl broardband and want to go wireless, so i went down to pc world today and picked up a netgear wireless router and a belkin card for my laptop. All is going well till i have to wire up the router to my pc and my pc hasnt got a slot for an ethernet cable How am i going to get round this ?
Will i not be able to have wireless ?

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp

 

Buy a Netgear PCI Network card from www.ebuyer.com for a couple of quid. Once it arrives, open up side of PC case, plug said card into a free white PCI slot, put case back together, insert supplied drivers cd into cd/dvd drive, install drivers, insert ethernet cable from NT Hell cable modem into router, insert supplied ethernet cable into spare port on router, and into aforementioned Netgear PCI network card.

Open router via windows and setup a wireless network.

15 min's top's to do that

 

pcworld...

belkin USB wireless link

 

Your cable modem should already connect to the PC via Ethernet?

If so, it's a matter of uplugging the modem from the PC & plugging it into the router instead. Then get another Ethernet cable to go from the router to the PC.

So your normal PC will be hard-wired to the router, and the laptop will communicate via wifi.

Hope that helps.

 

Or get a USB -> Ethernet adaptor. I have 2

 

Ntl modems have usb and ethernet connections.

 

Hey mate no the modem connects via usb.

Is there no easyer way round this ? can you not get wireless routers that connect via usb ?

 

How much How does it work ? just a little thing that connects to the end of the ethernet cable which converts it to usb ?

 

Is there not an ethernet port on the modem ?

 

If your PC doesn't have a network port then you will need to get a PCI card ethernet card like this;



Slot it in one of your available PCI slots, boot up the PC and it will most likely auto discover.

Plug your Cat5 ethernet cable into it and open internet explorer. Go to TOOLS > INTERNET OPTIONS > CONNECTIONS tab. Click LAN SETTINGS and tick the AUTOMATICALLY DETECT SETTINGS.

Then you will need to go in to the routers internal set up which you access from windows explorer. You will have the instructions for this with the Netgear router info. This will let you input the username and password of your ISP and allow the router to connect to your broadband service

 

Fucking 'ell, when I started that reply there was no replies, now look at it

 

You must type quicker

 

Thanks for the reply thrush but cound i not just use one of these ?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USB-to-LAN-NET...QQcmdZViewItem

 

 

I went looking for pictures!

 

More than likely yeah.... But fitting a 10/100 ethernet card into the PCi is piss easy

 

Yeah and thats even easyer

I hate computers and would not have the first idea with taking on apart

 

So just so i know as im gunna pop back down pc world, once i buy on of those converters the wireless modem will work ?

Cheers guys

 

The wirless modem should work fine as it is, but I think you need to set up the router setting using a hardwired PC, so you can "assign" your laptop to the wireless port of your router.

So yeah, get your PC hooked up to the router using one of them adapters and then follow the instructions provided for getting your lappy linked up wirelessly

 

Cheers bud, will go and buy one of those connectors now

Sam

 

I can see this ending in tears

 

Dan?

 

feels just like one of my posts

 

Cheers guys it works !!! Im currently on the shitter viewing passion ford

 

So you got the adapter, plugged it in, did the set up and you now how wireless connection to your lappy and a normal wired connection to your PC?

Cool

Question - how quick is the web on the laptop compared to the PC?

 

Hope my advice was of some help matey

 

Yep to the first question and i cant notice a difference in speed its exactly the same

Im just worring about other people being able to connect to it, how can i stop them ?

 

Yep, thanks again peeps !

 

I think these wireless access points have built in data encryption, and you have to kinda extend an invitation to assign a computer to the wireless BB service? I don't really know as I don't have wireless at home

Whats the make and model of your router and I will have a look for you? Unless someone else already knows...

 

you can set up wireless without hard wiring it in, i know because i did it with mine (netgear DG834GT) as i have two lappys and no pc, took abit of figuring out as this was the first time i've done it and i didnt have any instructions to look as the manual doesn't tell you

you will have to setup some sort of encryption that is explained in the manual