Setting up a desktop to use a laptops wireless connection?
 

So I'm moved out and renting out the basement of someone's house, who's just off campus grounds.

He's hooked up a wireless connection and I'm able to use that. My desktop right now doesn't have a wireless network card, but my laptop does.

Am I able to link both computers by a ethernet cord and have the desktop computer run off my laptops wireless connection?

It's possible, yes, with a crossover ethernet cable. Too bad that if you go to a Circuit City or Best Buy, you will pay about half as much just for that cable as you would for a USB wireless adapter or internal wireless card for your desktop.

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haha, I can wait, thank you both for you insight :3