Needed equpiment for wireless network

[Schott]

I am clueless to setting up networks. I want to move my computer to the other side of the room and don't want to drape a cable across it for my broadband connection.

My questions: I have a MSI K8NGM2-FID. It has the VITESSE vsc8201RX LAN that runs 10/100/1000Mbps.

What do you need to set this up through a wireless network? A regular cable modem and wireless router? Will you have to put in a USB or PCI wireless card to intercept the signal? Or, can you hook the router to the cable, and transmit it to a wireless modem, and then feed that into the onboard LAN?

I know, silly questions, but I am a bit lost...

 

[Evander]

I set up my first wireless network last month, it's not so hard.

Probably when you buy the router it will have a quick start guide that will go like this:
The cable modem will stay as it is, but you remove the LAN cable that's sticking into your pc, and plug that into the Wireless Router instead. On your pc, install a wireless network card. There are usb, pci, and pcmcia (for notebooks, what i used). Maybe you can find a kit for a cheap price that includes router + card. The placement of the hardware is now finished, next is to configure windows, read the router manual to see how to do that.

I got a belkin router, there's alot of junk in the manual you don't need to worry about, but here's a few pointers:
-you configure your router by typing an address in your browser bar such as 192.168.0.2
-first thing to configure is the security, it's disabled by default. For Windows XP home user, the "WPA-PSK" security is what you want
-also you'd best enable the firewall if it ain't on by default
-for networking multiple home computers to share files and such using the router, go here:
http://www.homenethelp.com/web/howto/net-update.asp