Neighbor wants to hook up wireless WRT54G to my cable connection. HOW?

Question

I am going to let a close neighbor borrow my cable connection for a couple weeks since she needs one for classes. She is hoping to use it wireless from on our front porch.

I just need to know how to go about it.

I currently have an arris cable modem going into my wired linksys router then to my desktop.

She currently has a Motorola modem going into her wireless WRT54G linksys which connected to her Sony vaio.

Everything was working fine for her but her cable was shut off so she has no internet.

Can I just bring her wireless linksys and swap it with my wired linksys and all should be good? Or do I need to also swap modems, or fiddle with some settings on her laptop or in her wireless linksys?

I appreciate any help. I am clueless to wireless and so is she.

Answer 1

In most cases, switching the router that is attached to the cable modem should not be a problem. People are apt to upgrade or replace routers, and cable companies know this.

However, in some cases you may need to "activate" your new router the first time you try to use the internet with it. This may involve a call to your cable company, in which  they may as for the MAC address of the new router - or may be as simple as you being redirected to a page where you must enter your ISP (cable internet provdier) assigned username and password to approve the new device.

Answer 2

Can I just bring her wireless linksys and swap it with my wired linksys and all should be good?

thats the best way to go about it

you can simply plug your cable in the wireless and your good to go !

Answer 3

you can just swapout the routers if you have enough ports to let you do this.

Yoou can also use the wifi router as an AccessPoint by plugging it into your existing router.

You need to do some setup to the wifi router. You need to turn DHCP off, set the default gateway IP to your router address, give the wifi access point a static IP address and go into the wired router and reserve that IP so the DHCP server does not try to give out the AP address and have a conflict.

Answer 4

It should work fine just swapping the routers.