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yo yo yo my new laptop should be coming soon and I'm fixing to have my broadband beamed accross my whole house so I can connect wirelessly from wherever with my laptop.
But here's the deal - I'm on NTL broadband, which means my modem is actually my set top box, and that I don't have a router or anything. All I've got is a wire (an ethernet cable) going from my settop box into a ethernet-USB converter and into my PC.
So what do I need? Obviously I'll need a wireless router, like this: [URL]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Wireless_Routers.html[/URL]
But I'll need to get a network card to plug it into, right? Will any old plain one do?
OR, could I just get something like this [URL]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/PCI_Wireless_Network_Cards.html[/URL] and be done with it? Or is that just for recieving wireless signals? Arg, I'm so confused.
Also, is it possible to create a network between Windows ME and Windows XP? Because that's what I'll be doing.
But here's the deal - I'm on NTL broadband, which means my modem is actually my set top box, and that I don't have a router or anything. All I've got is a wire (an ethernet cable) going from my settop box into a ethernet-USB converter and into my PC.
So what do I need? Obviously I'll need a wireless router, like this: [URL]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Wireless_Routers.html[/URL]
But I'll need to get a network card to plug it into, right? Will any old plain one do?
OR, could I just get something like this [URL]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/PCI_Wireless_Network_Cards.html[/URL] and be done with it? Or is that just for recieving wireless signals? Arg, I'm so confused.
Also, is it possible to create a network between Windows ME and Windows XP? Because that's what I'll be doing.
You'll need both.
I've never run my internet connection through the set-top box, so I don't know its capabilities. But from my set-up, I think you may need to get NTL in.
You'll need a cable modem from NTL to connect the wireless router to, as I don't think the STB has wireless capability. The fibre-optic will then need 'splitting', as with the old aerial splitters. They've installed a special fibre-optic splitter here.
Then one branch goes to the set-top and the other to the cable modem. The router is hard-wired to the cable modem, then you install suitable wireless network cards in each PC. With the router I've got, one PC can be hardwired.
I've never run my internet connection through the set-top box, so I don't know its capabilities. But from my set-up, I think you may need to get NTL in.
You'll need a cable modem from NTL to connect the wireless router to, as I don't think the STB has wireless capability. The fibre-optic will then need 'splitting', as with the old aerial splitters. They've installed a special fibre-optic splitter here.
Then one branch goes to the set-top and the other to the cable modem. The router is hard-wired to the cable modem, then you install suitable wireless network cards in each PC. With the router I've got, one PC can be hardwired.
yo yo yo my new laptop should be coming soon and I'm fixing to have my broadband beamed accross my whole house so I can connect wirelessly from wherever with my laptop.
But here's the deal - I'm on NTL broadband, which means my modem is actually my set top box, and that I don't have a router or anything. All I've got is a wire (an ethernet cable) going from my settop box into a ethernet-USB converter and into my PC.
So what do I need? Obviously I'll need a wireless router, like this: [URL]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Wireless_Routers.html[/URL]
But I'll need to get a network card to plug it into, right? Will any old plain one do?
OR, could I just get something like this [URL]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/PCI_Wireless_Network_Cards.html[/URL] and be done with it? Or is that just for recieving wireless signals? Arg, I'm so confused.
Also, is it possible to create a network between Windows ME and Windows XP? Because that's what I'll be doing.
But here's the deal - I'm on NTL broadband, which means my modem is actually my set top box, and that I don't have a router or anything. All I've got is a wire (an ethernet cable) going from my settop box into a ethernet-USB converter and into my PC.
So what do I need? Obviously I'll need a wireless router, like this: [URL]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Wireless_Routers.html[/URL]
But I'll need to get a network card to plug it into, right? Will any old plain one do?
OR, could I just get something like this [URL]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/PCI_Wireless_Network_Cards.html[/URL] and be done with it? Or is that just for recieving wireless signals? Arg, I'm so confused.
Also, is it possible to create a network between Windows ME and Windows XP? Because that's what I'll be doing.