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Can you use Netgear wireless g router and wireless usb adapter at same time?

I just got done setting up a wireless connection between two of my pcs using the netgear wireless g adapter and wireless usb adapter. The two computer rooms. I was just wondering if you can use internet on the two computers at the same time or if only one can use internet at a time?

Public Comments

1. Of course, as many as you like, practically.
2. yes, i have netgear router and wireless on 2 computers in 2 different rooms. but if they are more than 25 feet away from each other, your usb wireless could be slow, like mine is. but yes u can use them both at the same time.
3. Of course you can! The whole point of a router is to route your signal to multiple computers at the same time. Where I work the routers we install have no limit of wireless connections; however, the more computers that are on the network, the slower the speed is going to be.
4. Both computers, or any number of computers can us the internet at the same time. The way this happens is through a technology called NAT (Network Address Translation). Basically your service provider gives you one IP address that identifies your home, like a phone number. This address is usually leased so it changes every once and a while, but that doesn't really matter, because it is basically transparent to the user. Lets say your ip address for your home is 50.0.0.1. Lets say that one computer1 has the IP address 192.168.1.1 and the other has comtpuer2 192.168.1.2. When computer1 accessing a webpage he accesses it using specific port numbers. computer1 says "I want to access 70.0.0.1 on port 80", port 80 is the port for web surfing, ie http. computer1 then accessing the internet the following way computer1 source address : 192.168.1.1 source port: 5000 (randomly generated) destination address : 70.0.0.1 destination port: 80 (fixed) once your computer sends a signal to the router the router says "Ok I'm gonna keep your address private and use mine instead" so NAT starts router source address : 50.0.0.1 source port : 5000 (uses the port from computer1) destination address : 70.0.0.1 destination port : 80 (fixed) THEN along comes computer2 who wants to access 70.0.0.1 too. So he goes through the same process. computer2 source address: 192.168.1.2 source port: 5001 (random) destination address: 70.0.0.1 destination port : 80 (fixed) when the computer2 meets up with the router the router says "Ok I will keep your address private and use mine instead" router source address : 50.0.0.1 source port: 5001 (computer2 source port) destination address: 70.0.0.1 destination port: 80 (fixed) I know that was a little confusing but the main thing to see is that the source port on both messages are different distinguishing which computer/application the message came from which is how multiple computers can access the internet at the same time through a router. hope that helps