Can I Network, 1 LAN and 1 Wireless??

[Guest Ed H]

I have a new notebook computer, would like to set up a home network. Can my

desktop be a LAN connection and my notebook be a wireless. they're both

connected to my linksys router.

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Ed H

Dell Dimension 4550, WinXP Home SP2

60 Gig. HD, 512 DDR, Pentium IV 2.40 GHz.

 

New computer: Gateway, Vista Home Premium Sp1

[Guest Big Al]

Re: Can I Network, 1 LAN and 1 Wireless??

 

Ed H wrote:

> I have a new notebook computer, would like to set up a home network. Can my

> desktop be a LAN connection and my notebook be a wireless. they're both

> connected to my linksys router.

 

Yes.

[Guest Ed H]

Re: Can I Network, 1 LAN and 1 Wireless??

 

Any links, reading material, how? Can't seem to get it.

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Ed H

Dell Dimension 4550, WinXP Home SP2

60 Gig. HD, 512 DDR, Pentium IV 2.40 GHz.

 

 

"Big Al" <BigAl@nowhere.com> wrote in message

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> Ed H wrote:

>> I have a new notebook computer, would like to set up a home network. Can

>> my desktop be a LAN connection and my notebook be a wireless. they're

>> both connected to my linksys router.

>

> Yes.

[Guest Jim]

Re: Can I Network, 1 LAN and 1 Wireless??

 

 

"Ed H" <w.whatkey@comcast.net> wrote in message

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>I have a new notebook computer, would like to set up a home network. Can my

>desktop be a LAN connection and my notebook be a wireless. they're both

>connected to my linksys router.

> --

> Ed H

> Dell Dimension 4550, WinXP Home SP2

> 60 Gig. HD, 512 DDR, Pentium IV 2.40 GHz.

>

> New computer: Gateway, Vista Home Premium Sp1

>

>

>

I don't know whether yours can or not. However, my desktop (wired ethernet)

and my laptop (wireless) work quite well together.

Jim

[Guest Big Al]

Re: Can I Network, 1 LAN and 1 Wireless??

 

Ed H wrote:

> Any links, reading material, how? Can't seem to get it.

 

How much do you know about networking? I have no reference point of

your abilities to start with.

 

Normally you make a folder on machine A, right click and share it.

Then I would go to machine B and click on network places. There is a

'view workgroup computers'. browse it. Do you see computer A?

If so keep drilling down till you see the folder.

You can right click and drag it to the desktop and make a shortcut or

"map" it to a drive. (I like the shortcut better).

 

http://compnetworking.about.com/od/homenetworking/a/connecttwocomp.htm

I got this from google by looking for 'how to network 2 computers'.

 

There are a ton of ways to do this. Its the more than one way to skin a

cat thing.

 

And a ton of things can stop you, firewall, router, network config.

 

Do you have file and print sharing turned on?

[Guest Big Al]

Re: Can I Network, 1 LAN and 1 Wireless??

 

Ed H wrote:

> Any links, reading material, how? Can't seem to get it.

 

Just as a note. Don't post the same question multiple times. Let

people respond to the first one.

[Guest OldDuke]

Re: Can I Network, 1 LAN and 1 Wireless??

 

On Fri, 23 May 2008 19:05:02 -0500, "Jim" <jim-norris@sbcglobal.com>

wrote:

>

>"Ed H" <w.whatkey@comcast.net> wrote in message

>news:e5NcXiSvIHA.1768@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>>I have a new notebook computer, would like to set up a home network. Can my

>>desktop be a LAN connection and my notebook be a wireless. they're both

>>connected to my linksys router.

>> --

>> Ed H

>> Dell Dimension 4550, WinXP Home SP2

>> 60 Gig. HD, 512 DDR, Pentium IV 2.40 GHz.

>>

>> New computer: Gateway, Vista Home Premium Sp1

>>

>>

>>

>I don't know whether yours can or not. However, my desktop (wired ethernet)

>and my laptop (wireless) work quite well together.

>Jim

>

Get (if you don't already have) a wireless router. Most of them also

have RJ45 ports as well. It will do everything you are asking.

[Guest jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk]

Re: Can I Network, 1 LAN and 1 Wireless??

 

On 23 May, 23:59, "Ed H" <w.what...@comcast.net> wrote:

> I have a new notebook computer, would like to set up a home network. Can my

> desktop be a LAN connection and my notebook be a wireless. they're both

> connected to my linksys router.

 

one way is if your linksys router is a so-called Wireless Router

They support wired and wireless (yes, simultaneously)

 

if it is just a wired router, then you need to connect a "wireless

access point".

That effectively makes it like a so-called Wireless Router.

 

I don't use wireless.. But I'm a bit of a geek.. Truth is most people

don't know what a Router is. What a switch is.. I knew those basics

from a book called networking first step.. That was all theory. Not

practical at all. But maybe don't bother with that, since you probably

haven't even built your own computer, so you're not that much of a

geek.

 

 

It took me a while to figure out how it relates to the things being

sold.. I guess I read one or two usenet posts that made little things

click.. Maybe chatted to a few people on IRC chat.. But unlike that

book I mentioned. The so-called Routers being sold today, are best

termed NAT Routers, and their sockets are not Router sockets, but

Switch sockets (maybe L3 switch).

 

Understand that with Wired, what they call a Router, means typically

get a NAT Router with a switch built in.

That's your linksys machine with many sockets. Sometimes they have a

modem built in there too. So it's more than just a NAT Router with a

switch.. And it has a DHCP server in there handing out IPs. So it's

alot. It's your typical NAT Router.

 

Wireless Routers, Are Wired Routers, but they have a wireless switch

built in. A wireless switch is called an "access point".

They also have a wired switch built in, that's the way they get the

many sockets to plug computers into.

 

So you can built a wireless router by using a wired router and a

wireless access point.

 

And you need your computers to have a wireless adaptor.. Either built

in or external like PCMCIA or USB. The former should have an antenna.

If going USB, most are sold without antennae, but the one with them

have better range I have heard.

> --

> Ed H

> Dell Dimension 4550, WinXP Home SP2

> 60 Gig. HD, 512 DDR, Pentium IV 2.40 GHz.

>

> New computer: Gateway, Vista Home Premium Sp1

 

I guess you're not that much of a geek, or you would have built your

own..!

[Guest Ed H]

Re: Can I Network, 1 LAN and 1 Wireless??

 

Thanks all. My router is wireless but accepts cable too. I just couldn't

figure out the programming thing. All the wizards were either for a wireless

network or not. But I finally got it going, thanks again.

 

Ed

 

 

<jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message

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> On 23 May, 23:59, "Ed H" <w.what...@comcast.net> wrote:

>> I have a new notebook computer, would like to set up a home network. Can

>> my

>> desktop be a LAN connection and my notebook be a wireless. they're both

>> connected to my linksys router.

>

> one way is if your linksys router is a so-called Wireless Router

> They support wired and wireless (yes, simultaneously)

>

> if it is just a wired router, then you need to connect a "wireless

> access point".

> That effectively makes it like a so-called Wireless Router.

>

> I don't use wireless.. But I'm a bit of a geek.. Truth is most people

> don't know what a Router is. What a switch is.. I knew those basics

> from a book called networking first step.. That was all theory. Not

> practical at all. But maybe don't bother with that, since you probably

> haven't even built your own computer, so you're not that much of a

> geek.

>

>

> It took me a while to figure out how it relates to the things being

> sold.. I guess I read one or two usenet posts that made little things

> click.. Maybe chatted to a few people on IRC chat.. But unlike that

> book I mentioned. The so-called Routers being sold today, are best

> termed NAT Routers, and their sockets are not Router sockets, but

> Switch sockets (maybe L3 switch).

>

> Understand that with Wired, what they call a Router, means typically

> get a NAT Router with a switch built in.

> That's your linksys machine with many sockets. Sometimes they have a

> modem built in there too. So it's more than just a NAT Router with a

> switch.. And it has a DHCP server in there handing out IPs. So it's

> alot. It's your typical NAT Router.

>

> Wireless Routers, Are Wired Routers, but they have a wireless switch

> built in. A wireless switch is called an "access point".

> They also have a wired switch built in, that's the way they get the

> many sockets to plug computers into.

>

> So you can built a wireless router by using a wired router and a

> wireless access point.

>

> And you need your computers to have a wireless adaptor.. Either built

> in or external like PCMCIA or USB. The former should have an antenna.

> If going USB, most are sold without antennae, but the one with them

> have better range I have heard.

>

>> --

>> Ed H

>> Dell Dimension 4550, WinXP Home SP2

>> 60 Gig. HD, 512 DDR, Pentium IV 2.40 GHz.

>>

>> New computer: Gateway, Vista Home Premium Sp1

>

> I guess you're not that much of a geek, or you would have built your

> own..!

>

>

>

[Guest jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk]

Re: Can I Network, 1 LAN and 1 Wireless??

 

On 25 May, 03:13, "Ed H" <edandsa...@NOSPAMcomcast.net> wrote:

> Thanks all. My router is wireless but accepts cable too. I just couldn't

> figure out the programming thing. All the wizards were either for a wireless

> network or not. But I finally got it going, thanks again.

>

> Ed

>

 

you idiot..

 

what are you doing asking about books to understand things, if you are

using a wizard.