Which wireless router ?

ormus

http://www.netgear.co.uk/wireless_networkadaptor_wg111.php

you need one of these. assuming your router is a wireless one?

you are only connecting between your laptop and the router!
max range is about 2 houses away!

little_miss_messiah

Thanx to both, I thought the same re a USB sticking out, as I'll be downstairs on the sofa when I'm using it thought it best for a card. It's deffo not got wireless (as the poor chap from AOL who spent AGES on the phone with me trying to get the damn thing to connect will attest) how embarassing?!?!

It has a slide out tray on the left hand side thats about 2x1 inches, I'm guessing that's where these magical things go?

redrolo

little_miss_messiah wrote: »

Thanx to both, I thought the same re a USB sticking out, as I'll be downstairs on the sofa when I'm using it thought it best for a card. It's deffo not got wireless (as the poor chap from AOL who spent AGES on the phone with me trying to get the damn thing to connect will attest) how embarassing?!?!

It has a slide out tray on the left hand side thats about 2x1 inches, I'm guessing that's where these magical things go?

What Laptop do you own?

ormus

http://www.netgear.co.uk/wireless_laptop_networkcard_wg511.php

if you dont fancy the dongle thing, then this wireless card should do.
make sure you have a PCMCIA slot first.

little_miss_messiah

It's a Toshiba Equium A60

(now feeling v sheepish yet v thankful)

Bob63

In a house with thick stone walls you are likely to have problems with any single wireless router unless you have all wireless-N devices and even then you might struggle.

Another option is to go for a combination of wireless and HomePlug/Powerline. That's what I use at home, and I know a few people who have now gone down the same route. The flexibility it offers is incredible.

I have a regular wireless router which serves my laptop. The family's main PC connects to it using a pair of HomePlug ethernet-over-mains devices - one plugged into the back of the PC and the other in my office plugged into the wireless router. My daughter's laptop connects to a funky little combined wireless access point / homeplug device. So in effect I have two separate wireless zones and a wired device but I'm not running cables anywhere.

I got my wireless devices from Solwise. For the basic homeplug/ethernet I use a pair of these. For the wireless/homeplug I use this.

I have also used a pair of the homeplug/ethernet devices at my mum's house so that another telephone socket doesn't have to be put in her study for her ADSL modem. The ethernet ADSL modem is in the hall, plugged into one of the powerline devices and the PC is in her study plugged into another powerline device.

Mike