[pchelpers] Re: wireless systems

Hi Billy,

The cable is needed for setting up the network in the first place.
Once it's working, you can put the cable away until needed later. Note
that if you're only setting up ONE computer, you need to get both the
wired and wireless adapters working, although you'd need to disconnect
the cable to find out if the wireless is working right.  If setting up
two computers, you can remove the cable as soon as you get one
computer working.  It's all a matter of being able to manage the
router.

If the router is configured for it (and supports it), you can even
manage it from the internet, although this is a security issue in most
cases; most routers don't allow this, or have warnings.

When you said "no base station", I first thought that you meant an "ad
hoc" network, in which there's only two (or more) computers, no
router, which can also be done.

--Scott.


Friday, October 24, 2008, 2:45:10 AM, you wrote:

BE> Is it possible to set up a wireless router with no "base station"?

BE> I've always just set up as a home network, with the router hard
BE> wired into a main PC and all other
BE> laptops and PCs connected via the wireless system.

BE> Yesterday, someone asked me if I could set his security settings
BE> for him, yes no problem, till I got there and he wanted to get rid
BE> of an old PC and just have the laptop connected via the wireless
BE> router with the router only connected to his cable modem.

BE> All the ones I've set up, Linksys and Belkin, always show you
BE> connecting the router to a fixed base station PC. his router is a
BE> Zoom something or other and the set up disc is a bit primitive but
BE> reading the booklet, it indicates that you have to have a base PC
BE> to hard wire it too, but his son, apparently had someone set up
BE> his single laptop via the wireless network with the router
BE> connected to nothing but the modem?




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