No, you don't need to have one kind of network connection to set up
another.
  Things will get a little more complicated if you want the machines to be
able to talk while either or both is also online to the Internet, but not
much, and that Internet connection could be dial-up....

David Gillett


On 6 Jul 2005 at 9:53, Nancy Drew wrote:

> Hello List:
>
> Can anyone help me with what seems like a silly question?
> I wish to hook my laptop computer to my desktop which is located in another room,using a wireless connection, from the reading I have done seems like they want you to have broadband to set this up. Is this necessary?
>
> I just want to be able to move files and to print to my desktop with out having to move my laptop back and forth between the two room. Any advise from the  knowledgeable people on the list would be appreciated.
> The laptop is running windows XP, and he desktop is running windows 98, the laptop had wireless capabilities already was just looking to see if I can hook up a wireless router. Have looked for answers but the ones I have located didn't seem to address this specific issue.
>
> Thank you
>
> Nancy
>
>                   Visit our website regularly for FAQs,
>                articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more
>                           http://freepctech.com

            Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to
                    Digest mode - visit our web site:
                   http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml