I am going to hook up a new dell laptop to connect with wireless. I will be
using a dial-up service. What do I need to do this? I would like to be able
to buy the stuff at Best Buy or Circuit City.
Thanks

Using either Modzilla or Internet Explorer on my Windows XP computer I have
no problem getting to my favorite search engine website (Google) and after
searching I get the usual list of Web site links.  Howeve, when I click on
any of the links, I can't access their Web pages, and ...

I am having a problem with my computer wanting to connect to nearby routers
(i.e., those in houses near mine) instead of my own.  Mine has a greater
signal strength and is secured, but for some reason my adapter wants to
connect to one or more near me with less signal strength ...

When you have a simple home network set up between a desktop and a laptop.
Using an ADSL Broadband phoneline connection and a wireless router, will the
speed of the shared Internet on the laptop be a lot slower than the host
computer?

The Wireless LAN API update for Windows XP SP2 (KB918997) is now available
at the Microsoft download center.
Installing this set of application programming interfaces (APIs) will
enable you to create applications that can manage wireless LAN profiles and

Hi everyone. I hope you can help me because I am at a loss. I have a Dell
Dimension running XP home and an Acer laptop running XP Media Centre. I have
recently bought a Linksys wireless router and have had no trouble setting it
up so the desktop and laptop can both use the ...

Hi, I have two laptops, one from Dell and other is from Asus. Both are having
high configuration like Centron Duo Processors, 1GB RAM and Wireless
compatibility. Both are having Windows XP Professional SP2. I want to
configure both the laptops with the Wireless LAN. As per ...

We had to restore my daughter's hp zx5000 system. Now the wireless (Broadcom
802.1/g) doesnt seem to work. I have a netgear netmax router which is working
fine with 3 wired connections and my own wirles laptop. The wireless icon
shows the wirless network and a good signal but ...

Hi. I have a wireless laptop in corporate network. All network drives,
network printers etc. works fine, but I can't establish connection to
Internet. Pinging works fine, if I try to ping some address outside (like
www.microsoft.com), it will return ip-address just fine. Trace ...

David Hettel advised me the following:
1) it's possible that you are just going to "view available wireless
networks" and expecting to find the networks listed there without doing a
search. Have you tried searching? If you can search, and after searching

I have a Media Center in the bedroom, which is connected to my network
through WLAN. It all works great, good signal strength etc.
I have mapped a network drive on the Media Center to my server, where my
media-files are stored. When connected, it works great.

laptop running win xp receiving internet wirelessly & configured to share
internet & wired to LAN port #1 on WRT54G router (not WAN port)...
LAN settings of router:
static ip 192.168.0.150

Hi everyone. I hope you can help me because I am at a loss. I have a Dell
Dimension running XP home and an Acer laptop running XP Media Centre. I have
recently bought a Linksys wireless router and have had no trouble setting it
up so the desktop and laptop can both use the ...

I  have a home wireless network using a netgear DG834PN (Mimo) wireless
network router/modem. I setup the network using an ethernet connection to
the router and configuring all of the other machines on my network. I am
broadcasting an SSID  (channel 6) with 128bit wep encryption ...

I am confused by the wireless requirements.  I am trying to connect my
desktop pc to a laptop.  Do I need a router or do I need an adapter.  Also, I
just read an article implying that neither is needed
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/bowman_02april08 ...