I'm a wireless virgin!

BusyGirl

I have Vista on the laptop and XP on the PC and my friend also told me to download Firefox. Can I still keep internet explorer too?

bc3000

BusyGirl wrote: »

I have Vista on the laptop and XP on the PC and my friend also told me to download Firefox. Can I still keep internet explorer too?

Yep you can keep both

foreversomeday

BARGAINHUNTER! wrote: »

Ok - I have a similar query. At the moment I get free broadband from Orange with my mobile contract and use a speedtouch modem to connect to my pc. I am really happy with this, however, my kids have just got laptops and would like to connect wirelessly to the internet. Orange will charge me about £20 a month for this. As I get free internet at the moment, i don't really want to lose that as I am on a very tight budget. Is it possible for me to get hold of a wireless router, plug that into my PC and still connect to my free Orange broadband? Would the kids then be able to connect wirelessly to my free internet package? I have just brought this new PC from Play.com http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/-/656/863/-/5214447/Acer-Veriton-L410-Sempron-3800+-2-2GHz-1GB-160GB-DVD-SM-Vista-Home-Basic-Desktop-PC/Product.html?searchtype=genre
Would I need to get a wireless USB thingy as well?

Im sorry to sound so dense but unfortunately im not very technically minded!

Thanks!

Orange should not be able to charge more for wireless broadband than wired broadband. I'd imagine you've got this impression from cleverly-worded advertising on their part, or you are getting confused with their mobile broadband. The connection coming into your house via orange is the same, it is the router which changes the signal from wired to wireless.

If you have dial-up, however, you won't be able to have that wireless without upgrading to broadband. Do you know how you connect to the internet at the moment? Presumably, you have a box (the router) plugged into your computer. It's worth seeing if this is wireless as the routers provided by orange at the moment are - though they might have changed it since you joined. You can tell if a router is wireless because it will have an aerial.