Wireless internet - advice for a thicko please!

fiddiwebb

ShockingPink wrote: »

Similar, but no aerial.. The numbers are on the left and the funny squiggly light at the right. It has the wires to the pcs coming out of the back.

Okay, just checking you didn't have a wireless router already.

DCFC79

ShockingPink wrote: »

Similar, but no aerial.. The numbers are on the left and the funny squiggly light at the right. It has the wires to the pcs coming out of the back.

When you turn the router over does it give a model number or a make

ShockingPink

DCFC79 wrote: »

When you turn the router over does it give a model number or a make

Unfortunately I can't turn it over without wrecking DH's desk set-up! I wish he wasn't as clueless as me, then I wouldn't need to bother you lovely people:o

ShockingPink

Oh has just come in and told me his work pc won't work with wireless anyway! So e need to keep that router:mad: BUT we have a modem we used to use before we got broadband. If we connected that to a wireles router would it work? Or can we fit both routers to a single modem somehow?

tripled

Something like this will allow you to connect up to four computers by cable as you do now, plus give you wireless.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/169923

You will need the settings to input into the router to set it up when you get it.

DCFC79

ShockingPink wrote: »

Oh has just come in and told me his work pc won't work with wireless anyway! So e need to keep that router:mad: BUT we have a modem we used to use before we got broadband. If we connected that to a wireles router would it work? Or can we fit both routers to a single modem somehow?

is your OH's computer not next to where the line from outside comes in eg where the modem is

ShockingPink wrote: »

Unfortunately I can't turn it over without wrecking DH's desk set-up! I wish he wasn't as clueless as me, then I wouldn't need to bother you lovely people:o

your not bothering us,

ShockingPink

tripled wrote: »

Something like this will allow you to connect up to four computers by cable as you do now, plus give you wireless.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/169923

You will need the settings to input into the router to set it up when you get it.

:TThat looks perfect! So you just plug it in to BT socket? And what settings do yu mean?

ShockingPink

DCFC79 wrote: »

is your OH's computer not next to where the line from outside comes in eg where the modem is

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Yes - but it's connrcted to the router as well of course.

tripled

Just noticed that's a cable router, my bad. Don't buy it, you want an adsl router.

The settings I was referring to are basically the username/password used to connect to the internet - you stop using the current one, put the settings in the new one and away you go.

ShockingPink

I'm going to go for this: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/52244 :j

So we can just unplug the old router and swap to the new one? I can usually follow instructions, as long as they're written in words of one syllable...

Feeling all excited now!