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Step 1. Unplug ethernet wire from desktop computer.
Step 2. Plug the ethernet wire you just removed into your laptop's ethernet port.
Step 3. When finished browsing the internet or when portability is desired, disconnect the ethernet cable from laptop and return to the port on the desktop.
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What is a laptop wifi card and what does it do?
A wifi card gives your computer internet once you insert it so you don't have to connect to anything. And its just an internet service for laptops not for a desktop.
How do you run a PC and laptop on same internet?
WIFI can connect PC and laptop.
If there is wifi does a laptop computer need anything else to connect to internet?
To connect to the internet via wifi you will need: A wifi enabled laptop/pc OR a wifi card/adapter. A wifi router/network with the internet connection connected to it. As long as your router is set-up correctly and your laptop is fairly new you shouldn't have any trouble connecting to the internet.
Do you have to have a desktop and an LAN to use a laptop and Wifi to connect to a cable internet modem?
No, but you are going to need a wireless router, also known as an access point, between the laptop and the cable modem.
If you buy laptop with wireless enableed will it connect wireles router or does lap top need wifi?
If you have a router (connected to internet), and you get a laptop with wireless enabled you do not need anything else. You can connect your laptop to the router and have internet on your laptop.
I have cable for main computer.How do I get internet to my laptop.?
Subscribe to an ISP for internet such as IVC Telecom and then connect your laptop to the modem with an ethernet cable or connect wirelessly using wifi, assuming your laptop has a wireless network card.
How do I share internet connection through a router to a laptop connected to it by ethernet?
Adding detail to my question... I have a laptop that has full wifi, and another with no wifi, and it cannot use an adapter... Is there any way I can connect wirelessly to a spare router I have, as well as my internet enabled router (I have a USB WiFi adapter I could use to make 2 connections), and then connect the laptop with no wifi to the spare router via ethernet to get internet? The laptop with wifi is windows 8, and the other is fedora 19. Thanks!
How do you get your laptop and cellphone to connect through wifi?
first you need a router and internet access, your laptop should detect the network
How does a blue ray player with built in wifi work?
That it can connect to the Internet wirelessly, like a laptop
What do you need to connect your desktop to free wifi?
wifi connections.
What is the purpose of using a smartphone as a modem?
It allows me to use my laptop to connect to the internet when I am in an area that does not have WIFI or a Hotspot.
How do you get internet for PS2 and how do you do it?
you can connect it with many different ways. The easiest one is to have a wifi connection and to connect a laptop with a ps2 via a Ethernet cable. for more info go onto youtube and type in how to connect a ps2 to wifi using a laptop. Hope this helps.
