can i use a router as a stand alone device?

[yellowjohn]

i want to know is it possible to use a firewire adsl router to connect an upstairs pc to broadband when you have no phoneline upstairs but also no pc downstairs as a friend of mine is wishing to go on the net but does not want a lone telephone line going upstairs and has no wish to move his pc downstairs.

[Gandy]

You mean a wireless router? If so then yes. If it is a non-wireless router then a wire is going to have to connect the router to the PC.

[dodgyshirt]

With no PC downstairs, the router would need to have a modem incorporated in it.

[stevie21]

Sounds like you need a wireless router if you have one phone line (downstairs) and the PC upstairs and don't want a wire trailing between the two.
If you already have a broadband modem then you can plug a wireless router into this, or you could buy a combined wireless modem/router.

As well as this wireless router, you need a new wireless network card for your PC if you don't already have one so that it can communicate with the router.
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