How can you use a wireless modem as a wireless card?
I have a desktop that doesn't have a wireless network card. I have wireless internet and want to connect my desktop to it. I have an extra wireless dsl modem with ethernet ports. Can I connect the extra modem to my desktop and use it as a wireless card to connect to my other wireless modem? And if I can how do I go about this?
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- No you cannot Either buy a wireless Network Interface Card and install it on your desktop or run a CAT5 wired line to a LAN port of the router.
- Couple of answers; 1. If your desk top has an Ethernet connection, you can use it to plug into an active modem. I don't think you can use your "extra" modem, to function as a wireless card. If you make your extra modem your primary, and place in close enough to your desk top, Ethernet to it, and good to go. 2. There are now available usb wireless cards so if your desk top has a usb port, can add this on. They work well, and run about $50.00 at most electronic stores. I bout the last one that I installed at wal-mart.
