[Mark McLeod]

After the network is all set you do have to tell your laptop to connect to the new wireless network you've created.

The first thing to check is to see what wireless networks are visible to your laptop. You should see a wireless icon in the lower right of the Windows bottom-of-the-page toolbar. If you click on that it should list all the wireless networks it can detect. There may be several if you have a school or household wireless network running as well. This will give you the option to choose one of the wireless networks and connect.

That is the best indicator of if you are communicating with the DLink.

Your laptop wireless will reach the length of a standard playing field. It won't have to at a real competition, since those use the wired Ethernet connection instead of the laptop wireless.

The 2009/2010 router isn't necessary with the DLink/laptop wireless combo. If you still use the old robot bridge on a second robot, then you will need the router.