Wireless setup

Question

I have a desktop and am considering purchasing a laptop. I know nothing about wireless or its setup, so I have questions. I have broadband cable. Can I leave my desktop on direct cable and use a splitter of some type for my wireless router? My desktop is not equipped for wireless. Will this reduce the speed on either computer? What sort of wireless card should I get for my laptop? What type of router? If I place the router in the vicinity of my desktop, could there be interference problems? I know I will have more questions. Any opinions and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated as this is just in the planning stage.

SUEBEE1 · Answer

the only wireless things i know about is netgear. i have a netgear wireless card on my laptop and a regular netgear wireless router for my other computers. my basement computer is hooked into roadrunner and the router and the one upstairs is hooked into the router only. hope this helps you. im sure there are other brands just as good but ive had netgear products for 3 years now and  have had no problems at all.

volcano11 · Answer

MrKite,   Nearly every brand of router on the market today has 4 ethernet ports.  This allows you to connet the cable modem to the router and connect up to 4 computers by wired ethernet to the router (and therefore to the internet) and up to 250 more computers to the router by wireless.  Thus, you will not need a wirelss card for the computer that is currently connected to the modem by a ethernet.  You will just simply connect it to one of the 4 ports on the router.   Steve

MrKite · Answer

Excellent information, thanks to you both. If anything else comes to mind, please post.

SUEBEE1 · Answer

you are welcome.

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