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Dell Laptop, Wireless router. - Help a brother help his sister LOL

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ComatoseDelirium

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Hey all.

Well I was helping my sister she needed a laptop, nothing high end, and that had financing so I thought dell would be good, now she also wanted a wireless network so we got router that came with dells deal, : http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=316# [router], everything has been going smooth like butter except i never set up a wireless network hooked up to the a laptop (and to be honest I only setup one other wireless network and in that situation we had to get a seperate card and antenna for it to work) tho it seems pretty straight forward, I just had a concern... my concern is the laptop (the Inspiron 6000) comes with the "Intel® PRO/Wireless 2915 Internal Wireless (802.11 a/b/g, 54Mbps) Card" now does this mean that It will beable to automatically connect to the network (without a transponder/antenna going into the ethernet port) or do I need to buy a D-link transponder? Or does the Transponder come included with the retail router?

Sorry if that didn't make much sense, its just that my sister so far has got the router (though shes at home and hasn't opened it) and she has either the printer or the laptop waiting at the purolater for her.. I am just trying to pre-emptively solve any problems.

thanks for your help
 
transponder going into an ethernet port? wth? I have never heard of that, and it doesnt really make sense to me.
That card, whether it is built in or for the cardbus, should not need any additional hardware for it to work with that router.

Also i think your using the word transponder a little to loosely, a transponder is not an antenna. A transponder just refers to hardware that sends and receives wireless signals, in a 802.11 network this would be built into the card and router.
 
All the wireless in that notebook will be internal. I would also recommend that if you haven't ordered it that you get the Dell wireless b/g card instead of the Intel as it is a lot better and better range.

Also...pay that sucker off ASAP - the interest rate Dell offers is quite high. It was like 26% when I got my laptop and I have excellent credit.
 
Wkinney, your right - sorry, I do not really know too much about wireless technology so I probably came off a little ignorant, and confusing the terms a bit, thanks though all, this has really helped me
 
The "Dell" card is an atheros based card. Very nice. The intel is decent too though, and I think the atheros based one is B/G only. I would be tempted to price and "A" band router for isolation from surrounding networks/devices.
 
Well, its a tad late now, but the Intel Card was the only option available, I don't think the best of the best is needed though, simply because, really all she has is the laptop.. and printer for a network, no cordless phones or anything that could interfere.
 
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