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ethernet adapter?
Nikiya
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in Techie Stuff
Hello! We have installed Wi Fi and managed to connect our laptop but not our (quite old) PC, although a message pops up saying it detects the wireless connections available. I have been told I should buy a card + aerial for the wireless connection or use the cable. For this last option I would need to buy an ethernet to USB adaptor since the PC has no ethernet socket. I believe this to be the easiest way to do it since we are not going to move this PC around. Would this be the right solution? And which adapter would you recommend? Unfortunately the ones sold at Amazon are sold by sellers (not the site itself) and I have never had a good experience with those.
Thanks a lot for any insight!
Thanks a lot for any insight!
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As long as there are spare PCI sockets (Almost certainly will have) id buy an INTERNAL ethernet card
Maplins have em for under a tenner last I looked:idea:0 -
You can install an Ethernet card within the PC if you have any free card slots. Using a USB connection can become lose and cause network connection problems.0
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If you've got a spare PCI slot internally, I'd go for something like this
http://www.overclock.co.uk/product/Edimax-EN-9130TXL-PCI-10100Mbps-Network-Card,-Realtek-Chipset_1484.html
£6.73 all-in. I wouldn't use Realtek kit at work, but the vast majority of my home network uses it and it works out just fine.0 -
Try this...Hello! We have installed Wi Fi and managed to connect our laptop but not our (quite old) PC, although a message pops up saying it detects the wireless connections available. I have been told I should buy a card + aerial for the wireless connection or use the cable. For this last option I would need to buy an ethernet to USB adaptor since the PC has no ethernet socket. I believe this to be the easiest way to do it since we are not going to move this PC around. Would this be the right solution? And which adapter would you recommend? Unfortunately the ones sold at Amazon are sold by sellers (not the site itself) and I have never had a good experience with those.
Thanks a lot for any insight!
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=31868
BTW, are you SURE you haven' got a network connection available. Most PC's have had them for a while... 7-8 years in fact. What sort of PC have you got?
You don't need a ethernet to USB adaptor and, tbh, that sounds like it will simply create another level of complexity you just don't need.
What you will need, (if you haven't already got one), is an ethernet (RJ45 or cat5... there's lots of names for them
), cable.
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?moduleno=44362
I'm assuming you've got a router with ethernet ports? Let us know what router you've got as well including make and model or check the back of it yourself to see if there's a slot to put the other end of the cable in.
Just going back a stage, though, what are you doing when the message pops up saying it can detect the wireless connections available?0 -
If the PC is detecting Wireless Networks I'd imagine it already has Wireless capability?!!
Yeah, this is the important question. If the PC can see wireless networks, it has wireless capability...They say it's genetic, they say he can't help it, they say you can catch it - but sometimes you're born with it0 -
If the pc IS seeing wireless connections then surely it MUST have an ethernet port too? (ie NEVER seen a computer with wireless capabilities but no ethernet):idea:0
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If the pc IS seeing wireless connections then surely it MUST have an ethernet port too? (ie NEVER seen a computer with wireless capabilities but no ethernet)
Lots of laptops have no ethernet, but wireless. Macbook air for one. If the PC was old, so had no ethernet nor wireless, and was then upgraded with wireless, that'd explain it too.They say it's genetic, they say he can't help it, they say you can catch it - but sometimes you're born with it0 -
Well, he said...weegie.geek wrote: »Lots of laptops have no ethernet, but wireless. Macbook air for one. If the PC was old, so had no ethernet nor wireless, and was then upgraded with wireless, that'd explain it too.
We have installed Wi Fi and managed to connect our laptop but not our (quite old) PC,
which I take to mean a desktop of some type. Might be wrong though. As you say, maybe he's got a US wireless stick and is unsure as to what to do with it?0 -
The MacBook Air uses an adaptor to provide Ethernet through its USB2 port. If you need it. (As it's got 802.11n built-in.)
Does it have ethernet built-in, which was the point? :TThey say it's genetic, they say he can't help it, they say you can catch it - but sometimes you're born with it0
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