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Originally Posted by Steve
If your laptop already has wireless capability built in then you don't need a wireless card to plug into it 
However you do need to be able to connect (wirelessly) to something...be that another pc, or a router sending out the wireless signal. This is where your problems begin.
If you wish to use your laptop wirelessly at home then you are going to have to buy a wireless router and set up a home network. From there you would then tell the laptop to connect to your new wireless network (via the router) and it would then be able to share the resources that you make available (probably some file and folder sharing and the more obvious internet connection).
I am guessing that from the way your original question is worded that all this is a little more complicated than you expected though |
Yes and no....I've now been told that we don't have the wireless router in the office so that's why it won't work. But, given sgotwr's comment............
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Originally Posted by sgotwr
If wireless is enabled, you may have a wireless icon in the taskbar, right click it, from the menu that pops up, select "view available wireless networks".
Highlight the network you want to connect to and click "connect".
You should then be able to browse the net etc.
sgotwr
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....I can do that but the signal was quite poor so it often can't find any networks or the signal is too weak to connect when it does. (mobile signals are crap round here too.) So does that piggyback me onto someone elses connection?