wireless cable

[gimlids]

My problem is that my house is a little old and there is only one cable jack in it, at the far end of this room. My computer is at the near end of the room (about 15 feet away). I'm wondering if I could use some Wireless LAN product rated at atleast 2 Mbps (cable is offered at 1.5 Mbps in my area) to transmit the signal to my computer, and then from this computer it would travel throughout the house on a 10 Mbps Anypoint network.

 

[JackMDS]

Get your self a Wireless Cable/DSL Router.
You connect the Wireless Router to the Cable modem.
Put a Wireless card in each computer (up to more then 200 computers), configure, and you are done.

Wireless Router goes for $180 (on a good sale).

Wireless Card $75 and above. For desktops, you may be better off with USB Wireless Cards.

For Basic Primer:

The Wireless Solution, or my Wife, Mother in low, Mom, Don't Allow Wires.

For more Info:
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/pg/wireless_guide_index.asp

 

[gimlids]

Alright sounds good, I was looking at the Linksys Cable/DSL Wireless Router + Switch + DHCP Server (I think). But I already have two computers on an Anypoint network...is there anyway to salvage that?

 

[guaraguao]

hahaha... your subject is an oxymoron.

wireless cable
deafening silence
painful pleasure... etc, etc.

🙂

Oh yeah, if you have phone jacks (I would think you do), try home phoneline networking. Unless you plan to get a laptop in the near future and would have a use for the wireless...

 

[JackMDS]

The stuff to bridge Wireless Ethernet to Anypoint expensive. If you have 10 nodes, it will be making sense to salvage.

For two, three, computers it about the same as to go the Ethernet Wireless Way.

And to Quote Spidy07 ?It gets you to the 21st Century.

 

[gimlids]

OK, After learning more about what I need to do, I have more, relevant information, and a new question:

Again, at the end of this room there is a cable jack but no phone jack, and at the near end of the room there is one of my computers and a phone jack. Since there is no phone jack near the cable jack I couldn't use a Phoneline network Cable/DSL router. The other choice is a Wireless network Cable/DSL router which would work fine, but if I had to buy wireless network adapters for all the computers on the network (which I agree would be optimal) I'd be wasting $200 worth of Phoneline network hardware. Is there anyway around this that would cost less then 200 additional dollars?