George
September 2nd 04, 08:47 PM
We have a few WinXP-pro PC's, 2 printers, and each of course has an NIC
network card and they're all linked via a Linksys firewall router. I'd like
to go wireless, was wondering if someone could help with the following
questions.
1) Can I just remove all the NIC cards and replace them with wireless cards?
(Is it true that you would have one or the other, not both a NIC card and
then a wireless card on top of that?) If you install the wireless card,
MUST you remove the wired NIC card.or can I (or should I) just plug some
type of transceiver into each PC's existing NIC Ethernet port?
2) For the rounter/hub, do most people replace the wired one with a wireless
one or do you just ADD the wireless access point and KEEP the existing
router? Are there pro's and con's?
3) When you connect up a wireless system, is there a lot of WinXP setup, or
hardware or software setup (assuming I get something like Linksys devices)?
Or is it really fast plug-and-play, nothing to do but boot up.would devices
get whatever info they need from existing setups.that is, do I have to go in
and re-assign stuff like IP address and/or MAC addresses, etc.
Thanks,
George
network card and they're all linked via a Linksys firewall router. I'd like
to go wireless, was wondering if someone could help with the following
questions.
1) Can I just remove all the NIC cards and replace them with wireless cards?
(Is it true that you would have one or the other, not both a NIC card and
then a wireless card on top of that?) If you install the wireless card,
MUST you remove the wired NIC card.or can I (or should I) just plug some
type of transceiver into each PC's existing NIC Ethernet port?
2) For the rounter/hub, do most people replace the wired one with a wireless
one or do you just ADD the wireless access point and KEEP the existing
router? Are there pro's and con's?
3) When you connect up a wireless system, is there a lot of WinXP setup, or
hardware or software setup (assuming I get something like Linksys devices)?
Or is it really fast plug-and-play, nothing to do but boot up.would devices
get whatever info they need from existing setups.that is, do I have to go in
and re-assign stuff like IP address and/or MAC addresses, etc.
Thanks,
George