Can a $100 laptop from craigslist, be converted for wifi usage?
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you only need a USB WLAN Stick, either 54Mb (802.11g) or 11Mb (802.11b) and assure that the stick is also USB 1.1 & 1.0 compatible (all newer ones are USB 2.0)\nlooks like this\nhttp://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/pict/58647385498080_0.jpg
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I'd Say, because Laptop is a Portable thing, i'd say but a wireless card. A wireless PCI Card ranges From $4.99 ~ 64.00. Or you can buy A USB adapter, same range of price, but i wont recomment, because you dont have my USB ports in Laptops.\nIf you've it. Plug it in., Install the driver.\nAlso you need a Wireless Router which ranges from $2.99 ~70.00 , read the router's maual and then you are ready to go. You can also create wirless networks too!
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its is called a wireless card or air card, they also have usb wireless adapters most any electronics store will help you or call dell since that is the machine you have and tell them you want wireless internet capability
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I'm assuming your laptop has a wireless network card built in already.  If it doesn't, your local computer store should be able to set you up with one for 802.11g for $40-100.  While you're there, it might be worth buying a cat5 cable, for connecting to plain old wired networks. \n\nBefore a trip, search google for free wireless and the name of the city you're going to.  You'll probably find a few libraries, coffee shops, an airport, ect...  If you're staying in a hotel, ask them if they offer free Internet access, and whether it's wireless.\n\nIf you can't find good sources of free wireless, most towns will have an Internet cafe, which tend to be $5-15 an hour, and several Starbucks.  Starbucks has rates similar to an Internet cafe, but also offers a monthly plan which is a good deal if you're in there several days a month.  It seems to be popular with business travelers, and I like it.\n\nOther people have mentioned getting a cell phone Internet plan (i.e. Verizon, Cingular) which is a good idea if you want to have Internet access literally everywhere (or at least, everywhere you can get good cell phone service).  It's likely to be faster than dial up, but not incredibly fast.  Prices for this have fallen in the last few years, it's still a bit expensive, but is getting fairly reasonable.  When you buy the service, they'll sell you a cell phone card for your laptop.\n\n(By the way, DSL and wireless are not the same thing at all, but there are several companies who sell high speed internet with wireless connections, which they call "wireless DSL".  Apparently, they just call it that because many people associate DSL with high speed.  If there is a company that sells this in areas you visit a lot, it's certainly worth considering, otherwise, I wouldn't put any thought into it at all.)
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Yes, get a WiFi PCI card for your desktop, wifi for laptop and a wireless router for DSL or Cable internet.
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Yes, but you will require a piece of hardware: a video capture device.  These allow video input to the pc, and can be used over USB, FireWire, etc.\n\nYou should be able to pick one up on ebay for a few bucks (20-30 for an older model, 50-60 for something new).
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You should be fine. Referbs on hardware with out moving parts usually work well. I do not recommend any refurbished disk drives or hard drives. A network adapter should work fine as long as it looks like it has no obvious physical damage.
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Yes, you can turn a PC into a router. I suggest using a linux, or BSD distribution as you only need a small amount of disk space and a pentium II should be more than enough for this purpose
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You can buy Printers which already are network ready or you can convert your printer to be a WIFI buy adding an adapter. YOu can even make it Bluetooth ready.\n\nThere are loads of hardware especially a  way could be buy one of those mini print servers attach it to your wireless router and the printer is then available to all in the workgroup
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Your question is a bit obscure, but I'll have at it. \n\n=====\nWireless \n\nI'm presuming your laptop does not have WiFi builtin. It can be connected to the Internet through an Ethernet port or a USB port or ... if you have the right equipment. For instance, you can buy a USN WiFi adapter (most look a good bit like a thumb drive) whcih will connect to any access point it can reach. If it's not access protected, this might be enouhg. \n\nOr you can use Ethernet to connect to a WiFi radio, use that to connect to an Access Point and proceed. \n\nin either case, there will be issues about configuring your system for a network connection on USB or Ethernet. Usually, the installation utility for the USB WiFi adapter or the Ethernet adapter, should do this for you, especially if you're using Windows as it's the most popular opeating system by far. If you're using Linux or one of the Mac operating systems, your harware maker might not support Linux. And it's possible the Linux mavens haven't yet gotten around to reverse engineering that particular piece of hardware and making a Linux driver for it. \n\n\nNow let's consider the case of a wireless router. Your laptop connects to it via Ethernet cable. Assume that's a good connection. your next question will be how to connect to a WiFi network within reach. Will it work?\n\n802.11 a/b/g/n all allow several kinds of connections. The client mode can connect to an access point, an access point can connect to several clients (typically 3 or 4, except for odd antenna arrangements), or one client can connect to one other client. \n\nIf your router is set up as an 'access point', it can only connect (except in rare cases) to a client, and can't ask the client to connect. If your router is set to 'client mode', it can ask any reachable access point to allow a connection. Access points broadcast beason signals telling clients who and what they are (unless the beason is defeated in some security modes, in which case the client wanting to connect must know the access point's information). \n\n=====\nDSL\n\nIf your laptop is connected to the router via Ethernet, and the DSL adapter is connected to the router via Ethernet, and both connections are suited to the ports (speed, duplex, crossover/no crossover, ...), you are likely to have success. You will probably have to know the IP addresses of the devices, and properly configure them, but that should be enough. \n\nThe router should have a way to defeat the wireless radio in it, as you may not want others to connect to the Internet via the router. Check the router documentatin for its control interface where this sort of thing should be covered.\n\nIf you want to use the router to provide a wireless connection to the Ethernet connected to the Internet (via  DSL), you should need only to make sure the router is in access point mode, and the radio enabled. If you don't require encryption for connecting clients, anyone who can hear the router's wireless beason breadcast should be able to use the DSL Internet connection.\n\nBut, there is considerable variation in the configuration methods and flexibility between routers from various vendors. You should certainly read the manual(s) and check the vendors' Web sites for additional material.
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you can use ur wireless network on ur laptop .with out desktop
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Get a wireless router.  Use the laptops wifi connection.
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yes, for that reason you need a wireless router like the linksys WRT54G (GS)\nyou hook then the router to the modem and the Mac to the router. the laptop PC can then be connected to the router wirelessly.\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833124136\n\nSetting up the router:\n1. change the password of the router\n2. set up an SSID (any name you want)\n3. disable SSID broadcast\nfor your privacy and security\n4. set up an encryption, either WEP or WPA (this prevent from using your internet connection by your neighbors) and has also to be done on the laptop that is using the wireless connection.\n5. addionally you can set up MAC filtering (this has nothing to do with Mac PCs). this can be done (voluntary) to permit only registered PCs to use a wireless network.
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Yeah, the first guy is right. It's actually against the law to do that. But you can use some public networks for free like at a library. You need a laptop though, I think they frown on you dragging in your PC
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Connect a router to your desktop and pick the wifi signal up on your laptop.... guess that was your question
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Buy a Wireless router and plug your broadband modem into the router.  Then sink-up the computers to the router.  That should be it.
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It's actually possible with some broadband routers. If it has both a usb and an ethernet connection, try installing the usb on one and the ethernet on the other.