want to connect wirless

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Below is the unit I just ordered. Can you tell me what else, if anything, I will need to connect wireless to the internet while on vacation from my hotel room? Thank You

Inspiron 600m, Intel Pentium MProcessor 745(1.80GHz,400MHz) 14.1-in XGA, w/ 32MB Video

1 512MB,DDR,266MHz 1 Dimm, Inspiron 4200 1 80GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive for Inspiron 600m 1 Image Restore 1 Microsoft Windows XP Home Service Pack 2, English, for Inspiron 1 Dell Owners Manual installed on your system,click on icon after system set-up to access 1 Windows Media Player 10 1 DELL SUPPORT 3.0,INSP 1 Internal 56K Modem and Integrated Network Card 1 Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0, for Inspiron 1 8x CD/DVD Burner (DVD+RW,+/-R)for Inspiron 600m 1 CyberLink PowerDVD v5.5 Decoding Sofware for DVD Drives, for Inspiron Systems 1 Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 (802.11b/g) Internal Wireless 1 Network Associates McAfee 6.0,English, 15-Month Subscription 1 Music Match 9.0 Basic 7 day OnDemand 1 53 Watt-hour Primary Battery for Inspiron 600m 1 Dell/My Way Home Page 1 NETZERO ISP 1 Broadband Icon for Inspiron 1 AOL for Broadband 1 Paint Shop Photo Album 5.1 Standard 1 Corel WordPerfect 12 plus Trial of Quartro Pro and Presentations 1 No Warranty, Year 2 and 3 1 1 Year Limited Warranty 1 Soft Contracts - Banctec 1 Technical Support, Initial Year 1 Type 3- Third Party At Home Service, 24x7 Technical Support, Initial Year 1 Thank you for choosing Dell 1 Quickbooks 2005 Special SimpleStart Edition 1 Dell Media Experience 3.0 Basic

NemesisDB · Answer

you have an internal wireless card.  if the hotel offers wireless internet, you'll be fine.  i would update the drivers on the card when you get it though -- the older ones for your card aren't the best

NemesisDB · Answer

hotels with high speed internet usually offer it in 1 of 2 ways.   1) wireless:  hotels will have access points that enable wireless access in most if not all rooms.  you will use your wireless card. the hotel will have specific instructions about what you need to do to connect to their network (it varries).  if you don't have the latest drivers on your 600m (there's a lag time), you can get the latest drivers for your wireless card here:  http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R104002.EXE   this card has issues with anything but the latest drivers, so it's worth the upgrade   2) wired:  each room will have an ethernet wall jack.  you will need to connect your laptop's ethernet port to this walljack via a standard cat5 (or cat5e or cat6) ethernet patch cable.  some hotels provide this cable, some do not.  retail stores like best buy and the like tend to rip you off on these cable prices, buy online if possible.   that's about it.  as always, when you first get your computer, download all windows critical updates.  also make sure to keep current on your antivirus software.  AVG offers free AV software if you ever need some.

dejiavu · Answer

what do I need to do that? And what if the hotel just offers Hi speed internet access what cables will i need to hook up? Message Edited by dejiavu on 08-15-2005 05:23 PM

dejiavu · Answer

Sounds great. I do have a second computer at home so will i need a wireless card installed on my second computer to run it off the wireless router?

NemesisDB · Answer

The netgear item you bought is a wireless router. If you have high-speed internet in a place like your house, it will enable you to share that internet connection between multiple computers. So say you have 3 computers at home. You could plug some into the netgear router and some could connect wirelessly -- if the netgear router was in turn plugged into a cable or DSL modem, all your computers would have high-speed internet.

Concerning your hotel trip, if the hotel offered wired jacks in your room, I suppose you could plug the router into the wall jack and thus have wireless access in your room. Depending on the hotel's network setup though, things might need some extra configuring

dejiavu · Answer

what do� I need to� do that?   Thank You Thank You!!!!!! Im pretty computer illiterate when it comes to that stuff. I also bought a NETGEAR WGR614 54MBPS WIRELESS FIREWALL and am not sure what its for lol. I thought i would need it to hook up wireless.

NemesisDB · Answer

the computer can plug in directly if it has an ethernet card or port.  alternatively it can connect wirelessly with a wireless card.   again though, unless you have high speed internet in your home, there's not really a good reason to connect everything

dejiavu · Answer

what do� I need to� do that?   Yes i have high speed internet. Ultimately i wanted to have a computer upstairs without having to run cords down to my other computer. Is that what this NETGEAR WGR614 54MBPS WIRELESS  router will do for me?

dejiavu · Answer

I have DSL

NemesisDB · Answer

yes ... what kind of internet do you have, cable or DSL?

NemesisDB · Answer

check the modem and make sure that it can connect with ethernet (some are USB only).  if it can, you're pretty much set.  read the instructions that come with the router and post back any questions you have.

dejiavu · Answer

Yes it connects with ethernet. Thank You for all your help!!!!!

NemesisDB · Answer

not a problem ... drop another line when you're setting it up and others or myself will help you out

dejiavu · Answer

I got my notebook and wirless router. the notebook works fine with the wirless router. Now I have the router hooked up to my main computer and it connect to internet just fine but my second computer which im trying to connect to the router with  the cord is not connecting to the internet, I just get the page cannot be displayed page. I must need to get the setting for that computer setup but not sure how. Any idea?

NemesisDB · Answer

on the computer that is not working, when it is connected to the router, click start, click run, type CMD and press ok.  the type IPCONFIG /all and paste back the results

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