welshdude
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Registered: 6th Feb 03
Location: Swansea. Drives: 2006 Impreza STI
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I've just bought a second computer and I've networked them together through a broadband router, all I had to do was run the network wizard and that only had about 4 steps.
I remember when I was in college 4 years ago learning to stet up a network on windows 95/98 and not being able to get my head around it.
Ppointless post really, but is just had me thinking about how computers have come a long way.
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WATSON
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Registered: 16th Jun 05
Location: Fife, Scotland
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I have 3 computers in house 2 home PCs and a laptop is a pain in the arse haven to remove the modem cable to use for the other computers and not been able to be online at the sametime as others 
Might giove this a go infact  What did you all need to use? also is it cheap?
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welshdude
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Registered: 6th Feb 03
Location: Swansea. Drives: 2006 Impreza STI
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All you need is a wireless broadband router and a card for your laptop, easy peasy
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oli_h
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Registered: 3rd Apr 05
Location: Bedfordshire, Sandy
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it has to be a PCMCIA card for the laptop though, unless it already has the wireless built in
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Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
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it doesnt have to be PCMCIA, you can get a whole range of usb wireless cards for laptops:
Source
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Paul
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Registered: 16th Apr 02
Location: Oop north.
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Home networking is a doddle as you have all these pretty wizards. However networking in an environment where you may have a few hundered PC's is far harder 
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WATSON
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Registered: 16th Jun 05
Location: Fife, Scotland
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my mate has a laptop and can take it to work with him about 15miles away from his house and he can still use the internet? how does that work?
Will give all this wireless web a go 
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Nath
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Registered: 3rd Apr 02
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quote:
Originally posted by WATSON
my mate has a laptop and can take it to work with him about 15miles away from his house and he can still use the internet? how does that work?
Will give all this wireless web a go
Probably someone else using a router near by on an unsecure connection. Just tap into that and away you go.
My dad just bought a laptop so we bought a Belkin wireless modem/router, connected it up fine. Then today we moved the PC into my room from downstairs. So to get the internet going again I plugged the router into the main phone line downstairs, stuck a network adapter in the PC in my room and job done.
Easy.
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