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Trying to set up a wireless connection for my dad and struck a problem. He owns a 21" iMac. Bought the wirless Airport Express (or something) to make it wireless. Set that up on the iMac no problem. Only thing is i had to remove the Cat 5 cable from one laptop to plug into the Airport Express, now i have to try and get the laptop working for internet again. The lappy is windows based.

 

Found out that its not as simple as buying a RJ45 adaper and splitting it to run to each connection. How can this be done??? Wireless adapter in the laptop??? Will it pick up the Airport Express and work on windows??

 

Help please.

 

Thanx

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Trying to set up a wireless connection for my dad and struck a problem. He owns a 21" iMac. Bought the wirless Airport Express (or something) to make it wireless. Set that up on the iMac no problem. Only thing is i had to remove the Cat 5 cable from one laptop to plug into the Airport Express, now i have to try and get the laptop working for internet again. The lappy is windows based.

 

Found out that its not as simple as buying a RJ45 adaper and splitting it to run to each connection. How can this be done??? Wireless adapter in the laptop??? Will it pick up the Airport Express and work on windows??

 

Help please.

 

Thanx

 

Yes the wireless adaptor will work fine with windows.

 

I am assuming that the cat5 cable to the laptop used to connect to the internet modem directly (adsl or cable or whatever?).

 

If so, and the modem does not also have a router built in, then wireless will be your only hope as you can't share the internet LAN connection between the laptop and the airport (it's one or the other!). In that case, you will need a wireless adapter for the laptop, and let the airport handle all the internet traffic.

 

Good idea anyway, as you can hook up a USB HDD to the airport for network file storage accessible to both machines!

 

Cheers

Jacob

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