Question by rain: What is a wired/wireless network adapter?
I have a wireless broadband router and I’m trying to set it up with my cable modem, computer and xbox360. On the router box it says I need a wired or wireless network adapter. What is this and how do I know if I have one?
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Answer by Weston
a wired asapter is just an ethernet port on your computer. a wireless adapter lets you connect wirelessly. you would need to find the specs on you computer to check that. your xbox has a wired on but not a wireless one. another fault by microsoft.
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wired network adapter is the RJ45 network connection. If you have network card on your PC or xbox360 then that is your wired network adapter. If you have laptop then run->cmd type ipconfig you will see there is you have wireless adapter or not. if you dont have then you can buy one for less than 30$ and setup wifi at home.
Look at the back of your computer. If you see what looks like a little rubber antenna thingy you have one. The xbox has one don’t need to look for it. If yo have a newer laptop it probably has one too.
wired and wireless network adapters are two different technologies of network connection that you can use to connect devices to your router and thus the internet.
A wireless network adapter will ususally have an ariel sticking upwards so that it can communicate. a wired network adapter usually has a socket, a bit like a phone socket but bigger (called RJ45) where you can plug a Cat5e (Catagory 5 Ethernet) Cable in, and the other end goes in the router.
a picture of Cat5e with RJ45 on the end: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Ethernet_RJ45_connector_p1160054.jpg
it is something that connects different appliances with the net