I'm pretty sure the answer to this is "yes". I'm only stating this from personal experience, though. I have a Macbook and my mom has a PC laptop. The wireless internet router at our home is not by Apple and the wireless internet works on both of our computers.
You need a computer to access the internet. You need a modem, and a wireless card in your computer.
Wireless Enabled is a system normally on laptops which allows you to access the Internet via an existing Internet connection. For example; If you buy a laptop which is wireless enabled, and you wish to get on to the Internet then you can do if you have a computer which has the Internet or a wireless router. If you have neither of these items (a computer or a wireless router) then I advise you buy a wireless router and then you can connect to the Internet wireless. From Whiz-Tech 915.
You need to change the network card in your computer with a wireless one, and buy a wireless router. Need 2 items: wireless router wireless network card
A wireless router allows users to connect wirelessly to the Internet when they are within a specific range. A USB wireless router does the same thing except it uses the USB port of the computer to connect to the wireless router an Internet.
Well routers are devices for connection to the internet wireless. That means that the router receives connection, and users can either choose to connect a wire to the router or just receive internet connection from the router wireless.
You can't add wireless router to your computer. You can a wireless router to your network. If you do so, it does make your network wireless. In order to use your network wirelessly you need to have wireless adapter for all your computers you want to be connected wireless.
Yes, This is for adding a wireless antenna to a desktop or laptop computer that does not have wireless built in. You still need a wireless router connected to your internet provider.
Wired internet is where a physical wire is connecting you to the internet, such as a Ethernet cable going into the Ethernet port on the back of your computer. Wireless internet uses digital radio signals in the air to transfer data from a wireless router to a computer with a wireless adapter (built in or external)
Computer > Network Adapter > Router > ISP > Internet
If you do have a wireless router on, you don't need any other computer to be on, say if you have a laptop downstairs, and a computer with the router upstairs, the computer can be off, but the router has to stay on, and you can access the internet using the laptop from downstairs, if you have a good enough signal. Hope this helps!
Regular Internet service can become wireless Internet with the use of a wireless router. A wireless router does require the use of a power cord and a cat5 cable for setting the router up with the modem, but the Internet is transferred throughout your network without being connected by any wires. The router converts the Internet signal into WiFi signals for your network. In addition to a wireless router you need to have a wireless receiver for ever computer on your network.
A broadband router is similar to a wireless router, except that it lacks the ability to transmit and receive wireless signals. One example of a broadband router can be seen with early cable modems that allowed Internet access only to devices that were directly plugged into the unit with an Ethernet line. The primary purpose of a broadband router is to intercept traffic from the Internet and transmit relevant information packages to a computer or device for processing.