I am attempting to set a friends computer up in his business, I have never set up wireless before, anyway he has a laptop in there and a router set up and does have internet access. But he wanted another computer set up and I did everything but it could not pick the router up, so I got on the phone and the guy said you need to register your computer with british telecom, the ones who put the router in, I rang British Telecom and they said I needed a cable connecting my computer to my router, which I have just got and then they will set the account up for the computer, as these were far away call centres I don't always trust the info. I thought if it was wireless you did not need to connect a cable to it, hence wireless......Very confused so before I take this cable out of the box does this information seem correct? Thanks for any help Paul
Well generally you connected the router to one computer with wires, then you can run other computers off it wireless. For eg. right now I have a router connected to my computer, and 2 other computers are wirelessly running off it.
Hi, Been down that road a lot let me see if i understand you right, Like to use two computers on a wireless network, if thats right think its pretty simple. First set up the wireless account on one Computer establish a network for it with a pass code so that the other user can find it log on. this may help you if its a pc. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/learnmore/bowman_05june13.mspx best of luck to you
If your wireless router is in DHCP unencrypted mode, laptop will automatically connect to it. Else you've to change some configuration to make it work
Yes the laptop is not the issue is a the free standing p.c that I need to get connected as he wants to change and keep the laptop at home. Thanks for the link ladygodiva.