Wireless question.?

Question

I am a complete beginner to this.
We have a pc at home with pipex broadband that is connected to a bt landline.
I am looking to buy a laptop as i work on the internet and this stops my family using the pc as i am always on it!

Here goes:

I want to get a laptop with a wirless card enabled and get my own wireless broadband, not network with the pc with the pipex
via a router etc....
I know this sounds stupid but picture the scene ,
I have my laptop, my router and the cd's sent for wireless broadband. Do you need to connect to a landline in any way (I know this sounds stupid , but everytime i look for wireless on google, it mentions bt landline which is already being used by the pc with pipex)
I thought that was the whole point of being wireless!!

I DO NOT want share with the pc.
I want my own independent broadband on a laptop

Answer 1

Well, this is the common confusion caused by all the various types of "wireless" that are available.

1. Wifi, is basically a local in home wireless network. All it does is just make you able to connect with out wires within your house. To work it uses a DSL or Cable modem which connects to a WIFI router which then transmits the signal *this is called an access point.

2. Wireless Broadband - Wifi there are ISP's (I am one) that use towers and remote antennas to build wide area wireless systems which also use wifi to then connect to users with specialized antennas and recievers to supply higher speed than would be avialable to them otherwise! It basically replaces the need for DSL or Cable and is used in areas where those simply aren't options. It is more expensive. Some areas are too far from the switching office for DSL and some are simply to remote for cable to want to connect.
In these systems you cant usually use your laptop card (you can if you are "close enough") but these normally use an outside antenna to connect to the system and then have high speed internet inside the house.

3. 3g Wireless. this is provided by cellular carriers. It connects your laptop to cell sites and uses that system to provide wireless internet to your system. Anywhere your cellular carrier has a presence you can use your internet. It covers wider areas and is slower than your inhome wifi or wifi from an ISP would be. The advantage is you can take your laptop nearly anywhere and use it -- just like your cell phone.

What you are getting when you BUY a router is usually one to use around the house. That will require DSL or Cable - and that is what you have connected to your other computer. This allows BOTH the other machine and your laptop to share the connection and allows you to do so without a wire! If you don't want to share - well, you need another DSL or cable line to connect the router into. You could also connect it to the 3g system or a wide area wireless ISP but it has to connect to the internet somehow!

Hope that helps you understand "wireless" and some parts of "wireless" internet. IN all cases there has to be some "backbone" connection which nearly is always a wired one. (Even the cell sites end up on wires somewhere)

Merry Christmas and God Bless

Answer 2

Instead of connecting your computer directly to your modem, connect a wireless router to your modem, and set up your wireless connection; generally, Linksys is a good one to get, and their tech support is decent.

Answer 3

A Router is "like a splitter" one line IN and several lines OUT some wirerless some not. Wire from your modem to your router ,hardwire your pc to one OUT, go wirerless to your laptop.

Answer 4

You can can get a wireless router and connect it to your modem. I really like linksys wireless router.

Answer 5

A on the spot modem router could be a on the spot router/modem blend and a on the spot router might purely be a router by using itself. in case you had intense-velocity cable information superhighway you may wish a modem related to a on the spot router to get on line.