Know Nothing Needs Advice!

[Mike Hawthorne]

I purchased my wife a Dell XPS note book for her birthday.
It is the first computer we have had for her own personal use.

Now she won't tie up my computer doing her school grading etc. when I need to use it for my graphic arts business.

What I would like to do is get some kind of wireless device that will let her connect to our dialup connection anyplace in our house.

I don’t have any need to network with my desktop XPS, just an internet connection for hers. We can only get dialup here at this time. I’ve been trying to get DSL for years.

I think that what I need is some kind of wireless router but this is something I have never dealt with before, though I have worked with computers for a long time.

Can some one suggest what it is that I need to buy; that would let me set this up with no technical knowledge about networking etc? Perhaps something that would allow us to share a wireless connection if we get Cable or DSL becomes available.

I would like some specific suggestions, such as brand, model and a brief description of how this works.

Thanks for the help.

Mike

[bailey]

to be able to do this you would need to have a computer that uses a dial-up modem to make the internet connection and would be on all the time.
then have a switch connected to this computer and yours while using ICS . then use a wireless connection point connected to the switch for her laptop to connect.
I don't know of any router that has a dial-up modem built into it, that is what the other computer is for,

you could use you computer for this, but it would have to be on any time she wanted to connect to the internet.

[glc]

What you need is two wireless adapters capable of running in "ad-hoc" (workgroup) mode. Put one in the desktop and the other in the notebook (NOTE: The internal Dell wireless card *should* be able to do this). Use ICS to share out the modem dialup connection. This is just like using a crossover Ethernet cable, but it does it wireless. You could use a PCI or USB wireless adapter in the desktop.