Help! I Need Somebody Who Knows About Wireless Connections And Stuff!
so we bought a new laptop. It was a display model and uses windows vista. its wireless capable, in fact I think it already has the software in it b/c it has the little button on the front that says Wireless. but there is no wireless connection, internet only works when its in the modem/router thingy.
now the broadband router thingy. Its a linksys "Wireless-G 2.4 GHz Broadband Router with a FUCKING SPEED BOOSTER!" and its currently sharing wires with a westell thingy with Ethernet/DSL/USB labels on the front and lights. even though the linksys says wireless, if its not hooked up to the telphone line, the internet wont work.
as you can see, I know zilch about computers and less then zero about internet connections.
the goal here is to make the internet on the laptop work without any wires or its going bye bye. my mothers line of reasoning is "If it doesnt work automatically then Im not going to bother trying to make it work" and then she'll sell it to our neighbor. I dont want that to happen. we got a good deal (?) on this laptopn and Im goign to need on for college and so Im trying to avoid having to possibly spend thousands of dollars of MY money to get one.
can anybody to a technical diagnosis? just ask me for more information if needed and tell me what I may need to buy to make this work or, again, the computer goes bye-bye.
If your laptop's already set up for Wireless networking, all you can do really is leech off other Wireless networks, assuming someone by you has a wireless. That's how it works. If you have no wireless networks that come up, you must buy yourself a Wireless Router. Then you hook that up, or get someone to do it for you, and then you have a card for some of them that allows you to tap into that router without any wires.... I'd advise, if you can't find any networks to leech from and you have to do this, having someone who knows what they're doing to SECURE the connection so that OTHER PEOPLE can't leech off your network.
To try to leech, go to your start menu, on the left column that comes up at the Start menu hit 'Connect to'... if no wireless networks come up, no one currently has a network around you running. If you do see one and it says it's Secured, it's probably password protected. You can try, but prolly can't get in. If it's unsecured, you may be able to tap into it with no password. The signal status is important, if it's too poor you won't be able to do shit. Either way you hit the name of the network you want and hit Connect. And that's it.
Meh, good luck.
damn.
Im going to get my brother in law to help. his laptop has wireless.
and MOTHERFUCKER! the cd burner is broken.
I. fucking. hate. computers.
sharing wires with the westell thingy? you might not need the old westell thingy if you have a router. just hook all the shit to the new router and you should be good.
laptop has been fixed.
thanks for all the help even though I didnt use it.
I. fucking. hate. computers.
Only when they refuse to be your slave! But yeah, my DVD drive is playing non-hetero. Effin machine...
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Mine worked fine with wireless the first week, was actin up the second, so I went back to Buy Best. The guy didn't know what was wrong with it and said they'd have to ship it out. Before doing that, I bought Norton AntiVi. I went to install it, and it does a comp pre-scan, which it said was good, no Vi's on my comp. I didn't install it, but the internet started working again, for no reason. Can't trust those machines...
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
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