A broadband Internet connection is a high-speed Internet connection. You can get a broadband connection by contacting an Internet service provider ISP. ISPs frequently offer broadband modems. You can also find these at computer or electronics stores, and online. Wireless router. A router sends info between your network and the Internet.
With a wireless router, you can connect PCs to your network using radio signals instead of wires. Wireless network adapter. A wireless network adapter is a device that connects your PC to a wireless network. To connect your portable or desktop PC to your wireless network, the PC must have a wireless network adapter.
Most laptops and tablets—and some desktop PCs—come with a wireless network adapter already installed. Select Start , type device manager in the search box, and then select Device Manager. After you have all the equipment, you'll need to set up your modem and Internet connection. If your modem wasn't set up for you by your Internet service provider ISP , follow the instructions that came with your modem to connect it to your PC and the Internet.
If you're using cable, connect your modem to a cable jack. Put your wireless router somewhere where it will receive the strongest signal with the least amount of interference. For better results, follow these tips:. Place your wireless router in a central location.
Place the router as close to the center of your home as possible to increase the strength of the wireless signal throughout your home. Position the wireless router off the floor and away from walls and metal objects , such as metal file cabinets.
The fewer physical obstructions between your PC and the router's signal, the more likely that you'll be using the router's full signal strength.
Reduce interference. Some networking equipment uses a 2. This is the same frequency as most microwaves and many cordless phones. If you turn on the microwave or get a call on a cordless phone, your wireless signal might be temporarily interrupted. You can avoid most of these issues by using a cordless phone with a higher frequency, such as 5. But why invest in expensive hardware that will get out of date in a few years when you can achieve the same result directly on your laptop?
Read below to learn how using channel bonding software on your computer. Broadband bonding takes two or more separate Internet connections and combines them together into a single, incredibly fast pipe.
You can combine any type of connections together. When you use a bonded DSL modem wireless router, your connected devices will treat all connections as a single link to the Internet. You can effectively multiply your bandwidth.
This means you never have to deal with buffering videos or music. You never have connection issues. Well, it all should work well in theory. In practice, though, we discovered that not all is smooth. If you connected a device to MyLaptopWiFi , but there is no connection to the Internet on that device, try to restart the laptop, and repeat the steps above again, it may work better the second time.
Or, it appears that enabling the access point may not work well with the power transitions of your laptop. That is, if you try to put the laptop to sleep, it may not work and the laptop may stay awake while the access point is enabled.
We also experienced a few blue screen crashes, although not that frequently to make it a real concern. It may depend on the model of your laptop or the Wi-Fi card that your laptop has; some combinations may work better than others.
Keep in mind, that if you put your laptop to sleep or restart it, the access point disappears and you would need to set it up again each time you wake up the laptop. If you do this frequently and don't want to go through the same steps every time, you may want to use Windows Task Scheduler to do it for you. For example, put the two commands shown above in a batch file, and then create a new task that would run that batch file, and set the trigger for that task On workstation unlock.
This way, every time you wake up the laptop and unlock it, the batch file would run for you automatically. When you no longer need it, disable the task in Task Scheduler. We also found that sometimes an attempt to create the access point fails with Windows displaying the following message:.
If this happens, it could be because the hosted network adapter got disabled for some reason. To solve this problem, open Device Manager, navigate to Network adapters , right-click Microsoft Hosted Network device, and choose to enable it. If you don't see it in Device Manager, restart the laptop. Check also that the real Internet connection is still shared. Finally, what if you've created the access point, used it for a while, and no longer need it, - how to turn it off?
Easy: open Windows command prompt and enter the following commands:. Your email address will not be published. To do that, open Windows command prompt and enter the following command: netsh wlan show drivers Look for the line that reads Hosted network supported: Yes. We also found that sometimes an attempt to create the access point fails with Windows displaying the following message: The hosted network couldn't be started. The group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation.
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