Jo:

Here's a good question for you. Let's say my friend has an extra desk top computer. She was given a brand new laptop which she uses (using her daughter (who lives upstairs), well she gets a signal from the daughter's router. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Here's my question.

Let's say she no longer wants her desk top. It has Windows 98, Aol software, (I assume it has Internet Explorer but I'm not sure).

She is now only using the laptop.

If she ever wants to get rid of the desktop and I say "I'll take it, it will be the second computer I have in my house" (So I wouldn't have to buy a laptop).

So let's say I bring the desktop home, hook it up, plug it into the wall, and NOW I HAVE A SECOND COMPUTER IN THE HOUSE.

But I want to go online.

Can I link the computer to the other computer (which Alan is the main user of), and how do I do this?

Do I have to buy a router and connect it to the modem, and the second computer will get a wireless signal (kind of what my friend is now doing with her laptop?)

Or is there a way to not have to get a router, but to link the two computers, so that Alan and I can go on the internet at the same time (each of us having our own computer)?

One would think I would know the answer to this and maybe I did 10 years ago, but I have forgotten.

If you can make it simple, let me know how I can do this, okay? Thanks much

Melody