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t0m
As promised.......
Greetings Leythos,
I have a friend that thinks that since I have a wireless network, that
I can set his wireless up... Between you, me and the fence post, I
messed up when making my wireless network by somehow getting it
working right the first time and I have no idea what I did wrong....
er Right! Soooooo....
He has a Comcast cable modem (not setup yet), D-Link wireless router,
D-Link wireless adapter (for his laptop) and a single laptop running
XPHome-SP1 with onboard 10/100 Ethernet port plus slot for wireless
adapter. All but the laptop are in the boxes with nothing setup yet.
What he wants is to be able to move about the house with the laptop
connected to the internet. There will be no established wired desktop
system acting as the server or base.
Since my wireless network is not hooked into the Internet, I'm flying
blind on that one but I assume I have to set his modem and Comcast
account up with the modem wired directly to the computer (before
getting the wireless stuff involved) right?
Now, after that is done, I also know that to setup a router, you must
do it through a wired connection (can't do the HTTP://192.168.0.1
thing from a wireless computer, right)?
Now after setting up the router, I assume I then unhook the wired
connection to the router and install the wireless adapter on the
laptop. Again, I am assuming that there does not have to be a wired
"Main" system connected to the router in order to have a wireless
internet connection via a network except when doing the above
mentioned router setup, right?
Like I said, I have a wireless network (all Linksys Equipment) but it
isn't connected to the internet and it includes an always wired
desktop connected to the router with my laptops floating around
wirelessly while my friend wants a wireless network connected to the
internet with a single laptop floating around wirelessly with no base
system hard wired into the router.
If the way I am looking at setting this thing up for him is all wrong,
could you step me through it (Comcast cable modem, D-Link DI-524
Wireless Router and D-Link DWL-G630 Wireless Adapter).
Sorry for being off topic to the group....
Regards,
t0m
Greetings Leythos,
I have a friend that thinks that since I have a wireless network, that
I can set his wireless up... Between you, me and the fence post, I
messed up when making my wireless network by somehow getting it
working right the first time and I have no idea what I did wrong....
er Right! Soooooo....
He has a Comcast cable modem (not setup yet), D-Link wireless router,
D-Link wireless adapter (for his laptop) and a single laptop running
XPHome-SP1 with onboard 10/100 Ethernet port plus slot for wireless
adapter. All but the laptop are in the boxes with nothing setup yet.
What he wants is to be able to move about the house with the laptop
connected to the internet. There will be no established wired desktop
system acting as the server or base.
Since my wireless network is not hooked into the Internet, I'm flying
blind on that one but I assume I have to set his modem and Comcast
account up with the modem wired directly to the computer (before
getting the wireless stuff involved) right?
Now, after that is done, I also know that to setup a router, you must
do it through a wired connection (can't do the HTTP://192.168.0.1
thing from a wireless computer, right)?
Now after setting up the router, I assume I then unhook the wired
connection to the router and install the wireless adapter on the
laptop. Again, I am assuming that there does not have to be a wired
"Main" system connected to the router in order to have a wireless
internet connection via a network except when doing the above
mentioned router setup, right?
Like I said, I have a wireless network (all Linksys Equipment) but it
isn't connected to the internet and it includes an always wired
desktop connected to the router with my laptops floating around
wirelessly while my friend wants a wireless network connected to the
internet with a single laptop floating around wirelessly with no base
system hard wired into the router.
If the way I am looking at setting this thing up for him is all wrong,
could you step me through it (Comcast cable modem, D-Link DI-524
Wireless Router and D-Link DWL-G630 Wireless Adapter).
Sorry for being off topic to the group....
Regards,
t0m