WIreless router

[spudmacspud]

Sorry if this is a pathetic question.

I have broadband that comes from an ariel on my ceiling into a little box on the floor and into my laptop (via a crossover cable, service man pointed this out quite sternly) and this cannot me moved around the house defeating the purpose of a laptop. SO i bought a wireless router and tried to connect up, and the cross-over cable simply wouldn't fit into the section clearly labeled "DSL" as it's not a dsl line, i returned the router.

Are there any routers that can be used with a crossover cable? if so can you reccomend one?

Please do not answer with loads of technical mumbo jumbo as i won't understand it. Thanks in advance i appreciate it.

[Marcus-2001]

You need a DSL Wireless Router if you have a cable service (Telewest / Virgin Media) or an ADSL Wireless Router if you have a service delivered down a telephone line (such as BT or Tiscali or AOL)

A 'crossover' cable would traditionally be used to link two PCs directly to one another but not a PC to a Router. You need an Ethernet (Network Cable) to link a PC to a Wireless Router.

Note:- Crossover Cable and Ethernet cables have the same RJ45 terminations on the end but two of the wires in a crossover cable are connected in 'reverse' (for want of a better word) so the cables have different functions, i.e. a crossover cable looks exactly like an Ethernet cable but is not the same.

[spudmacspud]

thanks for that guys