Mixing wirless with a wired home network

[Guest]

Hello,
I have had a successful home network connected through a wired hub for
sometime. I just recently purchased a laptop with wireless capability and a
wireless hub however I do not yet have the to desktop PC's equiped with
wireless cards. How do I get my wireless laptop to communicate with the hard
wired network? The laptop has wireless, bluetooth and a network card
installed in it but it always defaults to the wireless card? How can I get
this to use the cable network card setup until I get the other pc's updated?

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Hello,
I have had a successful home network connected through a wired hub for
sometime. I just recently purchased a laptop with wireless capability and a
wireless hub however I do not yet have the to desktop PC's equiped with
wireless cards. How do I get my wireless laptop to communicate with the hard
wired network? The laptop has wireless, bluetooth and a network card
installed in it but it always defaults to the wireless card? How can I get
this to use the cable network card setup until I get the other pc's updated?

Is this "wireless hub" actually a wireless router? A wireless router
typically has one Internet (WAN) port and four local area network
(LAN) ports. What's its make and model?

If it's a wireless router, it will let you network all the computers,
both wired and wireless. Connect the wired computers to its LAN
ports.

If the wireless router doesn't have enough LAN ports for all of the
wired computers, connect one of the LAN ports to the uplink port on
your wired hub and connect some of the computers to the wired hub.
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[Guest]

--
PC literate - since VIC 20

Thank you Steve,

The Router is a new Netgear WPN824. Yes I did notice the LAN ports for the
cable hookup pc's and understand the wireless one doesn't need a port because
it is wireless. The problem I had was with Netgears installation
instruction card which is incorrect on the procedure to install the router.
Basically, it said to pop the disk in your computer and follow the steps to
set up the wireless. Well at seeing that I assumed they meant put the disk
in the wireless PC to initiate setup right? Wrong, They meant install the
software on your CABLE connected pc which is the original one you signed up
with your internet provider with...not the wireless equipped one. I
discovered this after researching the tech doc's on Netgear's site which
correctly describes the procedure in detail. It was easy after that the
original wired pc went through all the steps in setup and told you when to
actually change the modem and router connections.

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Thank you Steve,

The Router is a new Netgear WPN824. Yes I did notice the LAN ports for the
cable hookup pc's and understand the wireless one doesn't need a port because
it is wireless. The problem I had was with Netgears installation
instruction card which is incorrect on the procedure to install the router.
Basically, it said to pop the disk in your computer and follow the steps to
set up the wireless. Well at seeing that I assumed they meant put the disk
in the wireless PC to initiate setup right? Wrong, They meant install the
software on your CABLE connected pc which is the original one you signed up
with your internet provider with...not the wireless equipped one. I
discovered this after researching the tech doc's on Netgear's site which
correctly describes the procedure in detail. It was easy after that the
original wired pc went through all the steps in setup and told you when to
actually change the modem and router connections.

You're welcome, Andrew. Yes, you use the wired computer to set up the
router, then connect the wireless computer to it. Good job figuring
that out.
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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