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Standard User livbaybee1
(newbie) Mon 04-Oct-10 03:44:15
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making desktop pc wireless... HELP!!


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hi
my boyfriend has a desktop pc, and wanted to make it wireless, he lives in a shared house, and theres a virgin media router downstairs, he can connect too.
He brought himself a belkin wireless adapter ...
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/belkin-150n-wireless-u...
the link above is the one he brought, but he couldnt pick up a signal with it at all, it was now and again picking up the name of the router downstairs, but wouldnt stay connected ,and half the time the name of the router wasnt even coming up to try to connect. He installed the belkin cd and everything but no nothing worked.
So he took it back for a refund,
now i have a laptop which already has a modem inside it l, and mine connects fine to it, picks up signal straight away and works perfect, so how come my laptop works wireless connecting to the downstairs router, but his pc when he had the wireless adapter wouldnt work?
When we took it back, the lady in pc world said something about certain adapters only work with certain routers ,and was going on about N and G routers etc, but we didnt really understand lol ,
Like i said its virgin media internet with the basic virgin media router, which is downstairs, my laptop works perfect connecting to it, but my bf wants his pc too connect , is there a certain wireless adapter we need to buy to make it work?
Anyone that can help would be fab
Thanks
Standard User JonRennie
(knowledge is power) Mon 04-Oct-10 07:28:12
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Cross-post


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This one was first :

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/general/f/3909790-m...

To the OP : cross-posting is not accepted on these boards!

wink Comms is hard wink
Moderator billford
(moderator) Mon 04-Oct-10 09:30:49
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Re: making desktop pc wireless... HELP!!


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As JonRennie said, duplicate posts (cross-posting) is frowned upon.

Please read the bbs rules here.

Replies to the other thread please, this one is closed.

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