You have a couple of options, none of which are especially ideal.
1) Buy a wireless card for the desktop. You could then have the desktop dial out to your ISP and use Internet Connection Sharing (built into XP and I assume Vista) to share that connection over the wireless card. Your laptop would then connect to the desktop over wireless. Negatives to this approach are that the desktop needs to be on for the laptop to have internet and that dial-up doesn't have significant bandwidth should you wish to share it between both machines at the same time.
2) There are a variety of wireless phone card devices that you can purchase. You plug one end into a wall jack and the other into your laptop's modem port (presuming it has a built in modem?). This is similar to a cordless phone and is not true wifi. There is no connection sharing with this at all and only one computer can use the line at a time. Here's an example: http://www.nebowireless.com/
3). Some wireless routers allow you to attach an external serial modem to them. Some may also have such a modem built in, but I'm not aware of these. Your desktop would connect to the router over ethernet and your laptop over wireless. This would create a high-speed link between your desktop and lapop (as in option 1) as well as share the internet access. Unlike option 1, the desktop would not need to be powered on for the laptop to have internet access. The negatives are mainly the price. These routers are not cheap and the dial-up component is secondary, meant to serve as an emergency failover should the primary broadband connection fail.
i like the first idea more aswell.I'll just buy a pci network router card...I've seen a few,and go from there...now I just need to figure out how the laptop connects to the wirelss pc desktop wireless network card---
OK I purchased at the dlink wireless network PCI card . Now the delll laptop I purchased has a1515 wireless N mini card-how do I set this up -any suggestions is appreciated
You're going to need to tell us where you're at. Is the dlink card installed in the desktop? Did you load its drivers? Did you read the links I posted above? What operating system is on each computer?
NemesisDB
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February 20th, 2009 20:00
You have a couple of options, none of which are especially ideal.
1) Buy a wireless card for the desktop. You could then have the desktop dial out to your ISP and use Internet Connection Sharing (built into XP and I assume Vista) to share that connection over the wireless card. Your laptop would then connect to the desktop over wireless. Negatives to this approach are that the desktop needs to be on for the laptop to have internet and that dial-up doesn't have significant bandwidth should you wish to share it between both machines at the same time.
2) There are a variety of wireless phone card devices that you can purchase. You plug one end into a wall jack and the other into your laptop's modem port (presuming it has a built in modem?). This is similar to a cordless phone and is not true wifi. There is no connection sharing with this at all and only one computer can use the line at a time. Here's an example: http://www.nebowireless.com/
3). Some wireless routers allow you to attach an external serial modem to them. Some may also have such a modem built in, but I'm not aware of these. Your desktop would connect to the router over ethernet and your laptop over wireless. This would create a high-speed link between your desktop and lapop (as in option 1) as well as share the internet access. Unlike option 1, the desktop would not need to be powered on for the laptop to have internet access. The negatives are mainly the price. These routers are not cheap and the dial-up component is secondary, meant to serve as an emergency failover should the primary broadband connection fail.
geniuspro
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February 20th, 2009 20:00
Hi,
I really liked the response given by NemesisDB and wholly agree with it.
Cheers,
geniuspro
etbwd
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February 21st, 2009 06:00
i like the first idea more aswell.I'll just buy a pci network router card...I've seen a few,and go from there...now I just need to figure out how the laptop connects to the wirelss pc desktop wireless network card---
NemesisDB
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February 21st, 2009 10:00
You're looking for a wireless PCI card (assuming there's a free slot on your desktop).
This XP ICS tutorial may help, though it's not specific to wireless: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/crawford_02july01.mspx
This vista guide to ad-hoc wireless networking and ICS may also help you: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-us/help/293c504f-b944-4d5d-835c-f080129bd5dc1033.mspx
etbwd
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February 21st, 2009 11:00
OK I purchased at the dlink wireless network PCI card . Now the delll laptop I purchased has a1515 wireless N mini card-how do I set this up -any suggestions is appreciated
NemesisDB
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February 21st, 2009 14:00
You're going to need to tell us where you're at. Is the dlink card installed in the desktop? Did you load its drivers? Did you read the links I posted above? What operating system is on each computer?