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How can I speed up my wireless connection????

How can I share my high speed internet connection?

  • I have a laptop with high speed wireless internet connection. I live out in the country and that is the only option available for high speed connections. How can I share that high speed connection with my desk top computer? According to BestBuy Geek Squad, a standard wireless network will not work. Was the Geek wrong? Has anyone done this type of sharing?

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    Connect your laptop and your desktop by ethernet... your choice is a crossover ethernet cable between the two machines or a pair of straight through cables and a hub or switch or router connecting the two cables together (hub probably obsolete as switches are so cheap). Then set up Internet Connection Sharing between the two machines... the Windows Help on ICS is unusually good and fully explains how you set it all up. You use the laptop as the macine which is sharing its internet connection... Downsides... when you take your laptop away, your desktop stops being able to surf. Oh, if you were so minded you could set up a wifi network between your two machines instead of a wired one... make it an ad-hoc network or make the laptop act as base station otherwise you'll be buying lots more kit. But a crossover wire is cheapest by a long way... and can run to 100m length if you need... if both machines already have a network card suitable for Ethernet.

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If your receiving your high speed through a satelite provider such as direct tv or one of the other satelite providers you just need to get a router but if your getting your high speed from a cell phone company such as verizon then you would need a seperate verizon wireless card for every system and pay probably per connection which wouldn't be very cheap

salute222000

Wireless Router.

InsideTheX

Get a wireless card for your desktop. Once installed, it can pick up the same signal as your laptop.

Blazen Elite

try a wireless router

juniorsweapon

put a wireless usb adaptor in you desktop pc, install the driver (from the cd that comes with the usb adapter) and connect to your network

bill goldberg

Yep, wireless router for sure. I use Linksys, http://www.linksys.com, but dlink and others are good too. The router (once set up to do so) will assign separate IP addresses to each computer, allowing them to share the 1 IP address of the router. The router will plug in to your cable/DSL modem. You computers can either communicate via wireless and/or direct cable to the router. Since the router has the external IP address (assigned automatically by your ISP), that's the only device exposed to the internet. This gives you some added security. Good luck!

Dennis R

If you have mobile internet, the geeksquad guy was right. A standard WiFi adapter will not work. Also your internet service is specifically only activated to work with the card you have...even if you had a 2nd card, it will not work.

josix00

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