My sister and her husband are currently without a computer.
But, their AT & T NVG510 Modem is still hooked up.
Now … before, they used to have this … this Belkin F9K1001V1 Wireless THING that they used. I know nothing about Wireless / WiFi.
So, what exactly is this Belkin F9K1001V1? Is it a Wireless Router?
They asked me yesterday if while they’re out of a computer … can that Belkin F9K1001V1 be hooked up standalone so that they can “have a WiFi Hot Spot” for my niece to use her i-Pod with it?
Wouldn’t you need a computer to be using this Belkin F9K1001V1?
Somehow I get the feeling this isn’t something you just hook up standalone and have an instant WiFi Hot Spot.
So, what’s the deal?
From what I have briefly read about that AT & T NVG510 Modem, it DOES have WiFi capability.
I had told my niece that earlier in the week when she first brought up the notion of hooking up the Belkin F9K1001V1.
Of course, at that time, I didn’t know where she was going with her inquiry.
At that time, I THOUGHT my niece was hinting that they were getting close to getting a computer again and that THAT’s what they wanted to hook up the Belkin F9K1001V1 to. I had told my niece at the time that they really didn’t need WiFi because it’s not like they have a Laptop that they’d be using all over the house. And that IF and when they get their computer fixed, that sucker is a VERY heavy computer that is NOT gonna be lugged around their house. It’s gonna be planted right there on the computer desk in the computer room. Thus, having their computer hard wired to their AT & T NVG510 Modem is all they needed.
Just barely yesterday is when finally my brother-in-law explained that no, they weren’t getting their computer back quite just yet. Instead, they just wanted to see if that Belkin F9K1001V1 could be hooked up standalone to create a WiFi Hot Spot so as to allow my niece to use her i-Pod with it. That’s when I went, “Ohhhhh, THAT! Well, Geez! Then I have no idea whether that’s possible. My guess is that you need to have a computer for that Wireless … THING to work.” I told them I’d inquire on the Net to see if what they wanted to do was possible.
Oh, as an addendum, Bob, after I had told my niece that their AT & T NVG510 Modem did have WiFi capability, she says she did try to connect via WiFi with her i-Pod and it didn’t work.
Thanks, Pondus!
Now, to reiterate my other inquiry.
DOES it need a computer in order to do its thing?
Remember, I don’t know anything about WiFi.
My guess is that the output from the Modem has to be connected to the “Modem” Jack of this Belkin Router … and then 1 of the 4 other Jacks connected to the computer for this Router to do its thing. Does that sound about right? In other words, it’s NOT a standalone device, right?
The belkin will most likely need to be connected to a pc in order to configure some settings, especially the wireless. Of course it has to be connected to the modem to work…
That is the exact same Belkin router I am using. I’m not sure if an Ipod can connect to it since I don’t have anything but PC’s. A modem can only connect to one device unless it has a router built in to it.
