Wireless router

[reffgt]

Could someone very kindly explain to an oldie who has had a laptop since 2005 but does not know what a wireless router does. I want to get rid of some of the trailing wires and I have and a friend said ' get on '.??? The computer has a wireless Lan but is not connected so a young man in India told me as I have had problems with my BT phone line. Which is o.k. ?? They said. When anyone phones when the computer is on it makes a dreadful noise. My broadband is also BT.
Help anyone .

[Ethel]

A wireless router sits in a convenient place and beams out a signal, which is picked up 'by the wifi 'aerial' in your laptop, allowing you to surf the internet within several metres of your router.

My laptop connects from the shed at the bottom of the garden.
Your laptop may be wifi enabled. If it isn't you can buy an adapter for under �10.

I don't know if your BT modem is also a router, and I can't help you with your BT problems, sorry.

[reffgt]

Many thanks Ethel. The BT hub has a wireless light lit up so I will get a router and see what happens. When I want to move the lap top I have wires to shift each time.

[Ethel]

If you have a BT hub you don't need a router - it is a modem/router combined.

YOu need to make sure your laptop is wifi enabled

[chas2008]

isnt noises on the phone when PC on down to the ADSL broadband filter ?

Enables simultaneous use of telephone and broadband