I thought that to have wireless broadband to 4 nodes, you'd need a WLAN.

what are you trying to accomplish?

To answer your question...

In order to have wireless broadband, you'd have to have a wirlesss lan. No, that's not true. If you have wireless broadband, you could equip all your pcs with wireless nics and due without a wireless local area network at all...you'd just connect directly to the wireless wide area network. Or, you could get a base station that grab the wireless signal and converts it to wired, then have a regular lan. Or you could even have something grab the wireless WAN signal and convert it to wireless LAN.

So anyway...home networking is easy regardless of how you cut it. Unless you're trying to implement multiple router hops, like a segmented LAN, a MAN or even a small-scale WAN. Or if you're actually an ISP and have to set up BGP (*shiver*). Or if you're dealing with complex routing protocols like multiarea OSPF or EIGRP. Or multiple autonomous systems. Or complex network requirements involving AAA, LDAP, QoS, or whatever.

Yea im confused.

You can have no internet and a wireless network.
You can have wireless internet and no network.
You can have wireless internet and wireless network.
You can have wired internet with wireless network.
You can have wired internet with wired network.
You can have no internet and no network.

In the above the term "internet" and "network" are not the same thing.


So what the hell do you want?