|
humorist-workshop
laptops
I just bought a new laptop. And I was just wondering about connecting to the internet.
At my house we have cable and a router so it's no problem there but the house I work at has cable but no router I was wondering if there was a way to use their connection without changing their wires around. If anyone could tell me that or anything else helpful since I know nothing that would be great.
[ ]
Want to answer more questions in the Technology category?
Maybe give some free advice about: Computers?
If the second house, the one WITHOUT a router, has a PC already hooked up to that connection, you may be in trouble. In order to use the internet at that house, with your laptop, WITHOUT buying a router, you'd have to unhook the ethernet cable from that PC and plug it into your Laptop. I'd ask before you just went ahead and did this. Please be aware that surfing the Internet on a Windows-based PC without a firewall of some kind, be it Hardware or Software, is just begging for a Virus and Spyware.
The second option is, as you've probably heard by now, to buy a cheap Router and see if they mind hooking it up temporarily while you're there. It's a bit of trouble to do that though, with all the Cables and whatnot.
There IS a third option, but I don't recommend it at all. It's called ICS (Internet Connection Sharing), and it's a pain in the butt to set up on any Non-2K/XP Computer. See Microsoft's Website for more information, but I really advise against this one...
Hope this helps!
Ecx
]
u cant have the internet w/out the router or phoneline connection.
]
Depends on how the cable modem connects. A lot of them are ethernet, which means you just use the same cable as you would with the router.
]
More Questions: |