Probably a silly question, help?

[casey2008]

I am planning on buying a laptop but my house does not have any sort of wireless internet at the moment. Instead of having to buy an expensive router, is it not possible to just plug a Wifi usb stick into my PC and use that to get the internet on a wireless enabled laptop?
Help much appreciated.

[Carl]

I don`t think you can, cause you need the router to give out the signal and the usb to recieve it or the internal wireless in the laptop to recieve it.

[casey2008]

So, the ONLY way to set up wireless in my house is with a wireless router?

[Carl]

Yep

[casey2008]

Haha, ok. Thanks for the help.

[Carl]

Just glad to help m8

[Carbon]

You can get a wired router as well, obviously. Or you can use a spare PC as a router, believe it or not.

[CallumUK]

or you can just logon to one of your neigbors routers, if its open that it