Top Tip: Can I hook up 3 computers all wirelessly?
“Hi Everyone. I am needing help hooking up 3 computers to the net all wireless. I’ve read so much trying to figure this out I only get more confused. I have a 4 yr old Dell desktop, a 2 yr old HP desktop and a 3 month old Dell laptop. I have a DLink DI624 router and cable internet. I originally had my router hooked up through the HP desktop and subsequently using the wireless on the Dell desktop. Since I bought the Dell laptop I haven’t had the Dell desktop hooked up but now I want to include that also. The HP which is the one that the router is hooked up to, I want to move to a small room that doesn’t have a cable outlet. If I ran the cable from where it is right now I would need alot of it.
What I am wondering about is: Do I NEED to have the router physically connected to a computer and therefore run the 3 computers wirelessly? I thought I once heard that after you hook up “wired” to a computer, you should then go wireless? I can understand having to do it that way to get things geared up at first but would I be able to then “unhook” from the router physically which in turn I would be able to move my HP into the little room and also run the other 2 computers wirelessly also. IF the answer is YES, then I can run ALL 3 wirelessly. Could somebody please explain to me how I would go about doing this? IF I am able to disconnect after I get all the settings right in the configurations, all I would have “wired” would be a cable modem and the router?
“I’m guessing that your newest laptop has wireless capability, the older laptop may or may not, and the desktop doesn’t have a wireless adapter.
If the old laptop has wireless, great. if not it needs something like this.