I have a dell laptop which I bought for school .. but I don't know if I should get a wireless router or router for my laptop ..I want to be able to take the laptop with me everywhere in the house ..people told me if you have wireless router the internet connection gets slow as I move away ..but if I get a router I can't move around that much and I have to stay in one place ..so which is better to get ???
2007-03-27 14:45:30 · 8 answers · asked by babystar18 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Get the wireless router. You can use both wired and wireless with it. Just make sure you enable WEP encryption or SOME kind of encryption. If you don't and your at a school using this, or anywhere for that matter, ANYONE can access your network and possible get your network. That would slow down your bandwidth and worse case take you computer over through your own network you didn't secure. It's not that hard to do, most routers help you set it up now a days.
2007-04-04 14:00:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the first thing you should do, is check if your laptop has a wireless card, so it can connect to your router. the next thing you need to know, is that a router usualy has a wireless and wired connection, the wired conection is an ethernet port which you can connect to your PC with a ethernet cable, so that solves your question.
As for performance, i find that the connection speed is a little bit better with the ethernet cable, but wireless is good for just surfing etc, not as good when downloading.
If you don't have a wifi or wireless card on your pc, you can always buy a router with a flash key, to make your laptop wireless.
hope this makes sense...
2007-04-04 10:28:59 · answer #2 · answered by lozzyp 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can connect to an ethernet port with wireless router too. Most of the Wireless routers will have 4 ports for the Ethernet. So that you can have an option to go wireless or to stay in one place.
So, get a wireless router and be sure buy one with the ethernet ports on its back.
Wireless routers could indeed be slower than the Ethernet port but as long as you are in range with the wireless router, you shouldn't see a significant difference.
So, my suggestion is, go wireless... you won't regret it.
2007-03-27 22:07:37 · answer #3 · answered by boiiboii 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a wireless router, and I use it for both my desktop and laptop. I move my laptop all over the house, and have never noticed it getting slower. I would suggest you give it a try, I love being able to wander around the house with my laptop!
2007-03-27 21:54:13 · answer #4 · answered by kickie10 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have laptops, and we love our wireless router.
We can take it around the house, and out in the backyard. It can slow down the transfer rate a little bit, but not enough to make us switch to cables.
Definitely go with wireless!
2007-03-27 21:50:25 · answer #5 · answered by coyote 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
an industry standard 802.11g router will work fine (up to 250feet).
if you do go wi fi, make sure you get it real secure so other people can't monitor and/or use the wi fi when they are in the area.
this is several steps, so to learn about security for this stuff go to the 'grc.com/securitynow' web site. very informative mp3 discussions twix leo laporte and steve gibson. a must listen to series on wireless security, over several sessions. look in the index for them.
2007-03-27 21:59:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get wireless that has Extra wired ports .If you are streaming Vidieo Plug int the wire for speed .Or Unplug for mobility
2007-04-03 00:21:17 · answer #7 · answered by Snowman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you can afford it i would recomend sprint mobil broadband you can go any were you whant with no roaming charges for 60 bucks a month mines awsome iv never had a bad spot were i didnt get reception and i drive all over the place with my buisness
2007-03-27 21:55:42 · answer #8 · answered by threat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋