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"Dude are you sure about this? I mean I, oh hi. Today we're going to teach you how to make a desktop computer wireless. (What? How to make a desktop computer wireless. Well, it's quite complicated actually, you've got an ad in the eight, 0, two, nine, eleven peripheral component innovation to the mother board.) Now, look it's not quite that easy. But, it's not quite that complicated either. Now, folks in this day and age, there's really only about five different ways that you can do it. If you're lucky, it's probably going to be built in. For quick and easy, you can't beat the USB wireless adapter, you plug it in, and you're wireless baby. The second, and probably the most preferred way of making your desktop computer wireless is a PCI card with a little antenna sticking out. Now, that takes a little bit of effort on your part, but it's relatively inexpensive and easy to do. You'll open up your computer, you'll find the associated open PCI slot and simply plug the card right in. Sometimes you've got to install the software as well. Third method is not always an option, for everybody. It would be an air card or a PC card, or sometimes their called a PCMCIA card. Last method for making your desktop computer wireless may be the most expensive, but it's probably the strongest, the most robust and the best signal and it's actually probably the easiest. That would be the access point. An access point is actually a small little box that you plug into the ethernet connection or the network connection on the back of your computer, and it acts as a wireless transceiver, or transmitter and receiver directly to your wireless router or your wireless modem. Some access points can even be mounted with a cable outside your house giving you a range of up to three hundred meters, that's three football fields. There you have it. there's several ways to make your desktop computer wireless, if it's not already built in. But, hey, don't take my word for it, read the flipping manual."
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motherhen2k said
on 9/9/2009 Other residents seem to be able to work on their internet network with various computers (desktops and laptops) and various op systems (even Web TV). She operates on WIN XP Home V2002 SP3, with a HP Pavillion 8660C PIII 533MHz 20.4GB HD. The problem was that the network card stopped working (even though her computer works from my house). Installed replacement network card, and now it talks to their network, but number of packets received was only 55 after 30minutes!! Transmitting ok, but receiving is extrememly SLOW! The ISP insists the problem lies with her computer. I don't know what else to do except buy a new computer, and then there is no guarantee that it will work on their network. Any more ideas?
motherhen2k said
on 9/9/2009 So what do we do to make the computer itself "talk" in the access point scenario? Here's the deal... my mother-in-laws lives in a reduced housing community of town homes (aka duplexes). The set up for computers, is as follows:
In the club house (down the street a ways, as she is on an end unit ... not quite a full block away), there are several networking devices and an Access Pointusing a high powered, omni directional antenna. In the attic of each
duplex garage, we have a wireless bridge (to communicate with the AP in the club house, connected to a switch and hard lines run from the switch to the wall jacks in each duplex unit.
She used to be able to communicate on-line earlier this year ... Jan thru May. The ISP has been out to figure out what's wrong multiple times and has changed out attic equipment 4 times, to no avail. Something changed, but they insist it is her computer. ...
motherhen2k said
on 9/9/2009 So what do we do to make the computer itself "talk" in the access point scenario? Here's the deal... my mother-in-laws lives in a reduced housing community of town homes (aka duplexes). The set up for computers, is as follows:
In the club house (down the street a ways, as she is on an end unit ... not quite a full block away), there are several networking devices and an Access Pointusing a high powered, omni directional antenna. In the attic of each
duplex garage, we have a wireless bridge (to communicate with the AP in the club house, connected to a switch and hard lines run from the switch to the wall jacks in each duplex unit.
She used to be able to communicate on-line earlier this year ... Jan thru May. The ISP has been out to figure out what's wrong multiple times and has changed out attic equipment 4 times, to no avail. Something changed, but they insist it is her computer. ...