Are you on high speed internet (dsl or cable) or wireless? Cable modems and dsl modems are different animals than internal modems - an internal modem is only good for dial up internet access and phone/fax capabilities, not high speed.
I'm going to assume you have high speed.
Originally Posted by
Bretsky
1. Does my daughter's PC upstairs have to have modem on it ? I'm pretty sure it does not but want to make sure. I think it just needs a network card (I bought this today too) that sees the network.
A network card is fine as long as you have a cable you can plug into it that connects with the rest of your home network. Otherwise you will need a wireless card for your daughter's PC to connect to the new wireless router.
Originally Posted by
Bretsky
2. On the current setup I used an external modem with the five year old PC. The new PC has an internal modem and a wireless card in it. Does it make sense to connect the new wirelss router to the internal modem (I think this makes the most sense) ...........or it is more advantageous to use an external modem with the new PC as well.
Shouldn't need to connect anything to the new PC since it came with a wireless card - you can configure the wireless card to connect to the wireless router - no cables necessary.
If the new PC has separate network and wireless adapters, and you don't have any means of plugging the old PC into a network cable, you can take the wireless card out of the new PC and put it in the old one, and plug the new PC directly into your wireless router. The internal modem won't do anything for you unless you have dial up internet, so be sure to plug the cable from the router into the network adapter, not the internal modem. The internal modem has a smaller jack, like a traditional phone line connector, and the network adapter has a wider jack.
If you do move the wireless card from one computer to another, you will need to install drivers on the old computer to get it to work.
Ahem - don't forget to clear out your browser history before giving the PC to your daughter.