Wireless Question.

EireEV

Hi,

A friend of mine has recently signed up for BT broadband - he has Dell Vostro 1700 notebook with inbuily wireless capability and would like to surf the web wirelessly - BT offer a wireless modem for €45 but he bought a Netgear Rangemax type N router ADSL2+Wireless router.

Does he need to have the laptop connected directly to the router via ether net cable and does he have to have an rj11 connection from phone socket to wall?? Confused as to whether broadband is wires or wireless and what are the set-up requirements,

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

EireEV

Sponge Bob

wire up fully first opern browser and then http://192.168.1.1/ should bring up management of netgear

get dsl working thru rj11

set wireless security = WPA and enter the password and name the router ( aka ssid) as something obscure like 'potato'

turn off mamangement by wireless, eg http://192.168.1.1/ only works if you plug into it .

now unplug laptop from router and launch intel pro set wireless utility

the obscure name appears on a list, hit connect

enter password , it will save it

done

browse away

EireEV

Thanks for this.

Why bother with the ethernet connection at all so?

What is intel pro set wireless utility and how do I access this using Vista?

Linoge

EireEV wrote: »

Thanks for this.

Why bother with the ethernet connection at all so?

What is intel pro set wireless utility and how do I access this using Vista?

Sorry, but I have to laugh. Your friend prob spent EUR150 on that router and he prob doesn't even have an N card (even if he does, certainly sounds like he doesn't need it!)

Anyway, on the dell you will probably have the intel pro set wireless utility disabled, hidden, or not even installed. So, verything spongebob said, just replace "intel pro set wireless utility" with " right click wireless icon on bottom right beside clock". Click connect to a wireless network (or equivalent).

EireEV

the router was €99 and came with an N card - would it be better for him to plug the N card in to the laptop rather than relying on the laptop's inbuilt wireless capabilities of B/G?

What advantages does the N card have over ethernet connection - don't understand what 100mbit/s (ethernet) Vs 270mbit/s (N card and router) means and how this applies to internet browsing.

Sorry if these questions seem a bit silly.

Thanks for all the help

Sponge Bob

What does he need N for ??, 802.11b/g is 11mbits and his dsl is way less than that .

N is for countries with advanced DSL at speeds over 11mbits as standard and not for this godforsaken techno ****hole . Not in this decade anyway .

N is not even standardised, its a draft standard.

EireEV

I kind of understand where your coming from Spongebob but could you elaborate slightly - thought ethernet was 100mbit?? not sure what you mean when you say "802.11b/g is 11mbits"

Cabaal

moving to wireless...

azezil

802.11b is a wireless networking standard which runs at 11mb/s, 802.11G runs at 54mb/s.

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11

Linoge

EireEV wrote: »

I kind of understand where your coming from Spongebob but could you elaborate slightly - thought ethernet was 100mbit?? not sure what you mean when you say "802.11b/g is 11mbits"

Ethernet refers to your wired connection. You can use a network cable to connect to your router and it will be connected at 100mb/s.

Dont bother with the N card, its over compliacted for your basic needs.