Help with wireless network setup.

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September 14th, 2004, 11:15 PM

Pranav_g

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Help with wireless network setup.

I have a wireless setup for my laptop(XP_Home) and I wanted to add my wired desktop(98SE) to the network as I don't have a wireless PC card.
The problem is my desktop doesnot have a CAT5 input only phone line. I was until now connecting to my cable modem using USB port but now the wireless router only has the CAT5 so I am not able to add my desktop to is using USB.

I tried to connect my desktop directly to the Cable modem but a I am not able to connect to Internet.

Please help. Do I need to buy additional hardware to connect my desktop to the wireless router ???

Thanks a lot.

September 15th, 2004, 03:13 PM

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If you want to add in the wired desktop, you'll need to buy a NIC for it. Once you've got one of these, you should be able to connect it directly using straight-through ethernet cabling to the wireless router.

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