Bye Bye To Wires.

[mcornelio]

Okay, I Consider Myself A Pretty Technologically Knowledgeble Dude, But I Got A Laptop With Wifi. And Have Decided To Buy A Wireless Router (I Think Thats What I Need) So That I May Use My Cable Internet Connection To Connect My Laptop Wirelessly. But Then I Realized I Dont Know Jack Diddly Squat About Wifi Or Wireless Internet Speeds Or Anything That Has To Do With This... So I Ask You Fellow Computer Users....

A. Is Wifi Really Slow?

B. Is All I Need A Wireless Wifi Card Installed On The Laptop And A Router Or Do I Need To Get Something Else

C. My Cousin Said The First Thing I Should Do Is Secure My Wireless Network, That I Dont Even Have Yet. So How Do I Go About Doing This.

D. Are Their Different Types Of Wifi. I Was Looking At The Modems Online And They Have Like A. B. and G. Or Other Letters.

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[johnsmith]

Okay, I Consider Myself A Pretty Technologically Knowledgeble Dude, But I Got A Laptop With Wifi. And Have Decided To Buy A Wireless Router (I Think Thats What I Need) So That I May Use My Cable Internet Connection To Connect My Laptop Wirelessly. But Then I Realized I Dont Know Jack Diddly Squat About Wifi Or Wireless Internet Speeds Or Anything That Has To Do With This... So I Ask You Fellow Computer Users....

A. Is Wifi Really Slow?

NO

B. Is All I Need A Wireless Wifi Card Installed On The Laptop And A Router Or Do I Need To Get Something Else

THAT'S ABOUT IT

C. My Cousin Said The First Thing I Should Do Is Secure My Wireless Network, That I Dont Even Have Yet. So How Do I Go About Doing This.

ARE YOU REALLY THAT WORRIED ABOUT YOUR PORN COLLECTION BEING LOOKED AT BY THE GUY IN THE VAN DOWN THE STREET?

D. Are Their Different Types Of Wifi. I Was Looking At The Modems Online And They Have Like A. B. and G. Or Other Letters.

YES

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[Johnny_Blaze_47]

C. You do that once you have the router. Let me find some links for you that have some good info.

[dougp]

A. Is Wifi Really Slow?

B. Is All I Need A Wireless Wifi Card Installed On The Laptop And A Router Or Do I Need To Get Something Else

C. My Cousin Said The First Thing I Should Do Is Secure My Wireless Network, That I Dont Even Have Yet. So How Do I Go About Doing This.

D. Are Their Different Types Of Wifi. I Was Looking At The Modems Online And They Have Like A. B. and G. Or Other Letters.

A. No
B. Card + Router == Wireless Masturbating
C. Search google for WEP, or read about it in the manual. Please, read the manual before attempting to install it.
D. It depends on what the internal wireless card supports.

Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_LAN and read up some to inform yourself.

And suggestion, please quit typing with your f'in caps lock on.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-7605_7-...1.html?tag=dir

[dougp]

Oh, forgot to say - even if you do magically have a card that supports 802.11n, avoid it like the plague ... it's incomplete and is having some severe issues.

[PM5K]

WIFI isn't slow unless you are say transferring the contents of a dual layer DVD disk over the network, you'll likely have wired ports as well so if you ever need to do that (you won't) you could hard wire it temporarily.

Yeah that's pretty much all you need, you might need some additional wires but your router will probably come with what you need.

Get it setup then secure it, one step at a time buddy.

Yes there are different types, get a G router.

[Slomo]

Okay, I Consider Myself A Pretty Technologically Knowledgeble Dude, But I Got A Laptop With Wifi. And Have Decided To Buy A Wireless Router (I Think Thats What I Need) So That I May Use My Cable Internet Connection To Connect My Laptop Wirelessly. But Then I Realized I Dont Know Jack Diddly Squat About Wifi Or Wireless Internet Speeds Or Anything That Has To Do With This... So I Ask You Fellow Computer Users....

A. Is Wifi Really Slow?

B. Is All I Need A Wireless Wifi Card Installed On The Laptop And A Router Or Do I Need To Get Something Else

C. My Cousin Said The First Thing I Should Do Is Secure My Wireless Network, That I Dont Even Have Yet. So How Do I Go About Doing This.

D. Are Their Different Types Of Wifi. I Was Looking At The Modems Online And They Have Like A. B. and G. Or Other Letters.

Any Questions Comments Concerns And Or Talk Of Columbian Bukakes Appreciated.

Thank You.

A. It is slower than wire (most of them) but it is still a few times faster than your broadband connection to the internet, so it does not influence your surfing.

B. yes

C. use WPA or at least 128 bit wep. It's part of the setup procedure and should be quite straight forward.

D. use G.

[johnsmith]

And on your WEP, use the following "passwordpasswordpassword00" Then let us know your home address and if there is anything worth stealing from you........like your password to bangbros.com

[mcornelio]

how do i check if my dell wifi card is a b or g... anyway let me holla at the wiki, before i make myself look stupid. thanks guys. ohh and question. ill probably be downloading alot of games and dvd and other crap from the internet. will the difference in download speeds between wireless and ethernet be different?... lol johnsmith your a . i dont type in all caps, its that when i learned type when i was small they taught me to keep my pinky finger on the shift key and every word would start with a capital. and i do it automatically. i know its stupid but its become like second nature and ive been trying to stop it with no luck.

[Slomo]

A. It is slower than wire (most of them) but it is still a few times faster than your broadband connection to the internet, so it does not influence your web surfing.

B. yes

C. use WPA or at least 128 bit wep. It's part of the setup procedure and should be quite straight forward.

D. use G.

[johnsmith]

how do i check if my dell wifi card is a b or g... anyway let me holla at the wiki, before i make myself look stupid. thanks guys. ohh and question. ill probably be downloading alot of games and dvd and other crap from the internet. will the difference in download speeds between wireless and ethernet be different?

Quit with the lies........you know as well as we know that by saying "ill probably be downloading alot of games and dvd and other crap" you really mean hardcore porn........Honestly, I don't know what else the internet is used for other then sites like this and Asian porn.

[dougp]

how do i check if my dell wifi card is a b or g... anyway let me holla at the wiki, before i make myself look stupid. thanks guys. ohh and question. ill probably be downloading alot of games and dvd and other crap from the internet. will the difference in download speeds between wireless and ethernet be different?

The downloading you do depends - if you're just browsing the net, you won't notice them except sometimes you'll get a hiccup. But if you're going to be playing a game online, and downloading? You'll want to cry at the lag you'll experience, heh.

[mcornelio]

lol why asian porn? what ever happened to good old fashion blondes with huge s?

[CharlieMac]

Okay, I Consider Myself A Pretty Technologically Knowledgeble Dude, But I Got A Laptop With Wifi. And Have Decided To Buy A Wireless Router (I Think Thats What I Need) So That I May Use My Cable Internet Connection To Connect My Laptop Wirelessly. But Then I Realized I Dont Know Jack Diddly Squat About Wifi Or Wireless Internet Speeds Or Anything That Has To Do With This... So I Ask You Fellow Computer Users....

A. Is Wifi Really Slow?

B. Is All I Need A Wireless Wifi Card Installed On The Laptop And A Router Or Do I Need To Get Something Else

C. My Cousin Said The First Thing I Should Do Is Secure My Wireless Network, That I Dont Even Have Yet. So How Do I Go About Doing This.

D. Are Their Different Types Of Wifi. I Was Looking At The Modems Online And They Have Like A. B. and G. Or Other Letters.

Any Questions Comments Concerns And Or Talk Of Columbian Bukakes Appreciated.

Thank You.

A. No

B. You need the cable modem from grande or whoever you use.

I'm beat.

[johnsmith]

lol why asian porn? what ever happened to good old fashion blondes with huge s?

In my opinion, you can turn on the TV and see hot blondes with giant boobs, I prefer something a little different, like Asians........plus I'm pretty damn near positive that it's the one "major" race that I haven't nailed...........and I'm officially classless.

[mcornelio]

Power-line adapter Connects computers to your power-line network

WTF its this?

[ShoogarBear]

Power-line network = network that runs through your electrical jacks.

I've never known anyone who's actually had one, and it's essentially pointless with WiFi available.

[mcornelio]

also... how far does this thing reach?

[ShoogarBear]

What thing are you talking about?

[johnsmith]

also... how far does this thing reach?

Not as far as I'd like.

[PM5K]

You have B or G, my laptop is well over a year old and came with G, and G is backward compatible, so like I said just get G, go to Circuit City. I like D-Link, only because I've dropped mine from three feet about half a dozen times and it still works perfectly.

Coverage is hard to determine, many things factor in....

[Slomo]

also... how far does this thing reach?

It depends on the environment you are running the WLAN. Normally between 100 and 150 meters if there aren't too many walls in between. I've seen situation in building with crazy thick concrete walls where the signal went from 100% to 10% within a distance of 5m. But I've also seen links between two WLAN access point that were 36 km appart.

[mcornelio]

i dont understand tru the electric jack.

[dougp]

i dont understand tru the electric jack.

You don't need to worry about it - it's more expensive than it should be, and doesn't offer great performance and many things can interfere with it.

Just concentrate on choosing the proper router, and you'll be fine.