I am totally green as far as wireless is concerned.  I need to be able to
connect a computer in one building with a network in another building
roughly 500 feet away, with a clear line of sight between the 2.
Can anyone outline for me the various pieces of equipment that I will ...

My Setup
Router: Thompson SpeedTouch 576
Laptop: HP Pavilion zd8290ea with Broadcom in built wireless
- My laptop is seeing the wireless network from my router.

I have tried this on 4 different PC's with 3 different card (2 types) and 3
different routers (2 types)
Firstly, I bought 2 BT Voyager wireless broadband kits each including BT
Voyager 2100 Wireless router, 1040 PCI card and 1060 Laptop card. One 1040

According to my computer I have an excellent signal and the computer says it
is connected but when I try and use the internet with a browser or anything
else the internet connection is not found.  
Seems like there is something minor keeping me from bringing the two together.

DSL modem; Linksys 54G wireless router
2 computers (identical) one plugged into the router (A), the other set up
with a linksys wireless adapter USB (B)
1 notebook (linksys wireless PC card adapter)

Does anyone know how I can set my network key so that it does not revert back
to what MS has preset?  I have configured my 2 Toshiba laptops with their
ConfigFree program.  At first I had the same problem with them when I tried
to use MS Wireless Network Connection "Wireless ...

I would like to ask some advice about some of my router settings I do not
fully understand.
1. A simple one.  The default channel is 6.  Since everyone seems to use
channel 6, (and I think I may be getting some interference) are some of the

I am using windows XP Home ( SP2)and am trying to connect my nokia 6610i via
IR port. The PC detects the phone. However the PC suite software that nokia
provides does not recognise the IR port. Nokia support asks me to change the
connection speed via the "ControlPanel->Wireless ...

I have run the network wizard on my desktop (XP Home with wireless router
connected) and run the NETSETUP on my laptop (XP PRO).  I can see my
Workgroup in Network Places\Entire Network\Microsoft Network.  But when I try
to aqcfess it I get the error message "(Workgroup) Mshome ...

I have a new HP Laptop with built in wireless connection.
My Liknsys router is set up with 128 bit wep encryption.
I can connect to the router by clicking on the icon in the lower right
taskbar and choose the router and then click connect.

Is WEP 64bit good enough generally for most people ? I doubt tthere are any
really good hackers around my area but i would like at least a decent level
of security in case someone tries to get into my network and into my
pc's......

I have the card, lost the driver CD.  Haven't been able to find the drivers
online.
Any help?
Thanks

I'm have a laptop that is using WPA-PSK to connect wiht my modem/router and
a music player that uses WPA to connect to the modem router, I cant
configure the Music player to use WPA-PSK so I was going to configure the
Laptop to use WPA, but cant do it.

I have a new machine that is windows xp sp2 and for the life of me can't get
to it on my wireless network.  I added it to my workgroup successfully, my xp
sp1 machine can see the Computer Name but the error says "path not valid
//computername"; I compared the two machines and the ...

OK, I have asked for help here before and it has been very helpful and I feel
like I'm getting closer to the ultimate resolution. Here is the setup and
what I want to do. I have a Netgear wireless router in the basement which has
all the household computers networked. I inherited ...