I am going to be moving in with a friend shortly and they dont have a wireless router, and rather then disturbing their set up, I was wondering if their was some kind of adapter or something I could plug into their router to feed my wireless laptop.
This way I dont have a wire running all over their house, or buy a new router and go through that.
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It's called an access point and they cost just about the same as a router.
Routers are trivially inexpensive. $20- will get you a serviceable one. -
jackluo923 Notebook Virtuoso
Why not just get a cheap wireless router? Just plug the wireless router's WAN port to the non-wireless router's lan port and you can browse the internet wirelessly.
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What the OP needs to do is either get a Wireless Access Point, or use the 2nd router as a Wireless Access Point. To use the 2nd router as an AP, you'd connect it via a LAN port from the 1st router to a LAN port on the 2nd router. (Not the WAN port) Configure the LAN on the 2nd router to be on the same internal subnet as the 1st router, and use the IP address of the 1st router as the default gateway.
Or use a WAP configured the same way. The difference between the WAP and the full router is that the WAP lacks a WAN interface...unneeded in this scenario. -
so if i just say buy something like this http://www.thriftycomputer.com/product/Netgear-WG602-Wireless-Access-Point.html
and plug it into their router, it will feed my laptop wirelessly? -
Again, it's easy to set this up. If the included instructions can't get you up and running, then surely someone here will be able to work you through it once you have it. -
RainMotorsports Formerly ClutchX2
Im not sure what the above are on about but.
You can connect a wireless router to the router already in place. The only thing that needs to be changed for it to work properly is the ip address the router is using a common default is 192.168.0.1 or 1.1 and while you can just do 192.168.2.1 or something I usually go for 10.0.0.1.
Got a call one day from a friend when verizon replaced their dsl modem and the linksys i had setup for them wasnt providing internet access, told them what I just told you and its been working since. The DSL modem they have now is also a wireless + 4 port and then connecting to that is the Linksys which a pair of high gain antenna's for range.
Connecing to a non-wireless router?
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by jw340, Jun 16, 2009.