Hi For all practical purposes, in your case, laptops are no different then desktop puters except they are easily movable. For your home network, you "First" need to decide if you want to go wireless, wired, or a combo. If the laptop will be accessing the Internet from more than one place in the house, you may want to go wireless. (Keep in mine, that walls and electrical wiring in the walls can affect the range (distance) that the wireless computer can operate in) If the laptop will be used in one location, then wired may be what you want. Then you need to ascertain how the path the wires will go from the router (which will be close to the cable box) to the puters. Will they go through walls or around the walls? As far as your question about security using wireless, they have security measures built in on the puter and/or router that can be activated and set up to stop someone from using your wireless set up to access the internet and/or your. Life is what happens in between plans. Virus free email by Norton's This message is intended for the sole use of the individual and/or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the addressee, or authorized to receive this on behalf of the addressee, you are hereby notified that you may not use, copy, disclose, or distribute to anyone this message or any part thereof. If you have received this in error, please immediately advise the sender by e-mail and delete this information. Thank you ----- Original Message ----- From: "cristy" <poppy0206@xxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 9:18 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: internet sharing > The only > disadvantages I can think of is extra cost and extra security efforts to > avoid outsiders accessing your ISP through the wireless router. > > > Thanks Tom so much for your wonderfully detailed description of how to do > this. When you speak to the disadvantages of security efforts, does that > make my computer less secure even though mine is not wireless? In other > words if we choose the wireless method you described will that make my > computer more vunerable? Does it in effect make my computer wireless as well > as hers? I believe hers is wireless now and that she only plugs in her > battery charger to recharge her battery. The NIC you are talking about is a > card that I must install inside the computer yes? > > I am not familiar much with laptops as of yet. > > christy -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/