im getting a laptop and its compatible for the Wireless-N broadband router but i dont know if my PC is. please help.
thanks.
2007-08-25 07:41:29 · 9 answers · asked by IDchecker27 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
The only way to be sure that your laptop is N compatiable is to ensure that your new laptop has a Wireless N card installed. The a/b/g cards will work on a wireless N router but will only run at their respective speeds.
Your PC, if wireless, will communicate with the wireless router but will only run at the speed of the wireless device that is installed in it.
2007-08-25 07:44:31 · answer #1 · answered by users_are_stupid 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your computer has USB ports on the back or the front, I believe your machine should be compatible with a wireless router. We have a wireless router in our home and one machine is hard-wired to the router and the other is wireless. The wireless one has a small connector that plugs into my USB port and that does the trick with my machine. If you hardwire it to your computer, you will be plugging a new piece of equipment inside your machine so if you aren't comfortable opening up "the box" then go with the wireless but keep in mind, the wireless won't have as quick a response as the hardwired one does, depending on the distance from the router. We are connected to broadband cable, to their modem, and that connected to the router.
2007-08-25 07:48:07 · answer #2 · answered by Rli R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A laptop normally has wireless g as the n standard is still not complete. The router will drop back to g for this. It will still be at least 5 times faster then your broadband connection.
2007-08-25 07:54:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be unusual if a PC comes wireless ready. Most only have a network card which has nothing to do with wireless protocol. The interface is a cable type. If you have added, or it did come with wireless, you can look on the makers web site for specs and protocol standard. It is only in the past 4 to 5 months that the pre-N interfaces have been offered out of the box on laptops.
2007-08-25 07:51:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry I'm in the USA, so I can't answer on Virgin Media's policy, but I do have some technical advice: I've never heard of a wireless N router that wasn't backwards-compatible with 802.11b/g. You shouldn't have any problems connecting your older equipment, you just simply won't get much of a speed boost out of it. I hope this helps.
2016-05-17 21:36:52 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most PC's arent as nower days PC's arent built with wireless capabilities, you can get an 802.11n NIC for a bit of money though. Communication between your router and your laptop will be a maximum of 300mbps where as your PC without the wireless NIC will run at 100mbps.
Tell us what PC it is and we might be able to help you. Incidently your PC doesn't HAVE to be 802.11n compatible ,its just prefered if you want slightly faster network access, if you want really fast network access by a 1GB NIC and use that instead its more than 3 times the speed of 802.11n.
2007-08-25 09:31:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'll need a Wireless-N router first in any event. As for the PC, yes, it is. You'll need a PCI card that provides Wireless-N. As for as Windows is concerned it's just another network card (as long as the appropriate drivers are loaded).
2007-08-25 07:45:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't really know. When I got a broadband router, the only concern was that the computer had an Ethernet port.
2007-08-25 07:44:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
every cpu can be wireless
2007-08-25 07:45:20 · answer #9 · answered by muhammad k 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋