I have got 'Boadband Basic', and My sister has just bought herslef a laptop, but she wants to be able to use tha laptop arond the house, without any wires!
I went on the bt website and it says that !Bt do not support wireless & home networking.
Would this be possible?

I would be very grateful, for any help!

Simon Jones

Looks like you would need this:

http://www.shop.bt.com/invt/cbx107

To do that.


Although then I see: "NB: BT Broadband Basic package is not suitable for home networking."



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The reason that BT don't support broadband in networked environments is purely a logistical one, not a technical one. I've recently been experiencing the same thing with broadband at the office - BT will support it 100% being plugged into my server but they won't support it on my network, even though it's a business package! The reason is simply that they don't want their helpdesk to be swamped with calls from people telling them their broadband doesn't work when the truth is that it does work from one PC but their network isn't set up properly.

It's fair enough really when you look at it from their point of view. I'm employed by a software company and we take the same stance with certain things. For example, we don't support Citrix terminal services. We know it works because we've seen it but we don't want our helpdesk spending all their time helping IT guys to troubleshoot their Citrix problems because that's neither our speciality nor our responsibility.

But, in truth, yes you can run BT Broadband Basic in a wireless LAN environment. There are various methods but the simplest is to get it working correctly on one PC/laptop, connect that PC/laptop to another PC/laptop with a new wireless network, then use Internet Connection Sharing (Windows 2000) or the Home Networking Setup Wizard (Windows XP) to share the broadband connection from the first PC/laptop to the second one.

Hope that helps

dont both pc's have to be on for that method tho?
say you have the modem connected to a desktop, and you link it to a laptop using a wireless network, the desktop could use the internet fine, but, if the laptop needed to use the internet, the desktop would have to be turned on wouldnt it?

Yes, that's right Mike.

so..... could you use a dsl wireless router and connect the pc's/laptops to that with wireles network cards? or wouldnt that work with broadband baisic? (just a slightly more complicaded alternative)

Yes, that should work. That's how I'm planning to do it when I go wireless (later this year hopefully) and I'm running BT Broadband Basic.

cool, do you think it would work for aol s***band??
or do you pay extra for using both screen names at once?

oops, sorry for hijacking hope DAL will let me off if i promice to be good (well at least it's still "on topic" :P lol)