Okay, I got a dell notebook this week. I have wireless (wi-fi) and bluetooth on it. I have a MAC at home with a Cable Modem and router for my husbands xbox 360. I want to use my notebook on the same internet service. Do I need a wireless router? How do I set this up? Do you need a wireless router for the xbox, and my router? my husband and I can't agree on that one!! Just one router or two?
Now that I have confused all of you too, thank you to whoever can help me!!
Our household has an iMac and a Windows XP Home (desk PC) with Cox cable ISP and their cable modem. When we set ours up, we got an SMC "Barricade" because it combines 4-port hub, wireless access point AND hardware-based internet security (firewall). It just runs and we are happy. Not only that, MAC OS X and Windows XP are compatible on the local area network.
sesmone
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March 29th, 2006 02:00
Okay, I got a dell notebook this week. I have wireless (wi-fi) and bluetooth on it. I have a MAC at home with a Cable Modem and router for my husbands xbox 360. I want to use my notebook on the same internet service. Do I need a wireless router? How do I set this up? Do you need a wireless router for the xbox, and my router? my husband and I can't agree on that one!! Just one router or two?
Now that I have confused all of you too, thank you to whoever can help me!!
Mr Ledesma
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March 29th, 2006 02:00
volcano11
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March 29th, 2006 03:00
volcano11
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March 29th, 2006 13:00
Routers from Linksys, Netgear, D-Link, or Belkin should work just fine.
Steve
sesmone
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March 29th, 2006 13:00
Is there a router you can recommend? I heard these netgear ones are great?? What do you think?
This really makes my day, My husband said we need 3, i knew he was crazy!! Thank you so much!
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March 29th, 2006 19:00
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March 30th, 2006 16:00
sesmone
Our household has an iMac and a Windows XP Home (desk PC) with Cox cable ISP and their cable modem. When we set ours up, we got an SMC "Barricade" because it combines 4-port hub, wireless access point AND hardware-based internet security (firewall). It just runs and we are happy. Not only that, MAC OS X and Windows XP are compatible on the local area network.