Okay...so I have a wired router that all of the computers in the house are hooked up to, and I was wondering if there was anything I could get that would allow me to connect to our network wirelessly from my laptop without having to buy a whole separate wireless router...if that makes any sense at all.
2007-03-27 12:16:53 · 7 answers · asked by alicecooper91 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Yes, you will have to purchase a wireless access point, not a router. The access pount will plug into your routers ethernet port. Then any computers that connect to the access point wirelessly will also be connected to your router.
That being said the access points generally cost more then purchasing a new wireless router.
2007-03-27 13:06:08 · answer #1 · answered by Taba 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you can get a Wireless Access Point, which plugs into one of the wired ports on the router and lets you connect to it wirelessly, with the wired router still handling the DHCP and so forth.
2007-03-27 12:27:33 · answer #2 · answered by Fix My PC Mike 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it is not possible, but you will be able to buy a wireless router. Plug an ethernet cable into one of the open slots on your current router and plug the other end into the 'internet' slot for the wireless router. I use this setup and it works fine. As an added benefit the wireless router you get will also have some ethernet ports so you will have extra ports to work with.
2007-03-27 12:21:34 · answer #3 · answered by zenchess 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hi Amy,
There are adapters you could use but I would recommend you go to Best Buy, Circuit City or Walmart & ger a Linksys WRT54G wireless router. Don't pay more then $49.95. They are almost always "on sale" at all three places.
Your wireless will be quicker and easier to secure.
Norm
2007-03-27 12:38:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think of you assert which you have a Modem on your room. You decision may be to purchase a under pressure out, instantaneous, or the two under pressure out and instantaneous router. you additionally can get a modem that has no antennae yet is a instantaneous router interior the Modem. so which you would be able to connect into the modem in case you needed use it wirelessly to boot. They do make i recognize a minimum of 30 feet ethernet cords, or are the rooms linked so your father might desire to drill an elementary hollow and permit you to place a cable by using it on your sister. no count number if it particularly is a controversy of money, they do have low-fee routers, and no count number if it particularly is approximately protection, they have hi-tech or very stepped forward protection so as that merely the individuals with the right codes or encryptions might desire to apply the instantaneous sign, the community may be considered via others interior sight, yet not useable and not impossible yet you will might desire to have somebody fairly enormous time into hacking to do some thing like that, and easily to apply the internet? yet sorry no cords might properly be instantaneous, to not be a clever A&*^ i presumed I took it some distance with reference to the instantaneous twine assertion, yet you mustn't tell them to bypass to ultimate purchase and yet a instantaneous twine for 60, who's greater immature right here?
2016-10-20 13:41:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Linksys WAP11 should do what you wanted, but a wireless router is cheaper alternative.
2007-03-27 12:37:38 · answer #6 · answered by jean l 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
^ what he said... you can get a linksys router at wall mart for 60 dollars i got mine there and it works fine , if you don't like wal mart then go somewhere else i think wal mart has it cheapest though. if your on a budget then get a belkin wireless router for 39.99 and it does almost as good.
2007-03-27 12:26:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋