Wireless without a homehub

Hello all,
I have been a BTBroadband customer for many years, I had a Voyager 100 modem/router overheat which caused the connection to drop every couple of minutes, this was about 6 years ago, I bought another Voyager 100 router which also did the same thing but BT did not beleive this was the cause of the problem and said I would need to pay an engineer to come out.
After talking to a few people they suggested I try another router so I bought a wired Netgear router and it has been trouble free for many years.
I want to carry on using this wired router in my home office.
Now I have bought a new laptop that is wireless enabled and I want to be able to use this in the lounge wirelessly so I bought a wireless Netgear router which I do not know how to set up.
My 2 questions are,
1) As a BTBroadband customer am I able to use the wireless network without paying or subscribing to it?
2) If so should I be able to connect using the new wireless Netgear router or do I have to purchase/use something like a BT homehub?

is your netgear connected to the intenet already? the wireless connection is free and just a matter of your laptop connecting to the netgear router. If you enter the netgear by entering 192.168.0.1 then go to wireless and change the wireless passowrd to one you will remember then save.
does your laptop run windows 7 and if so do you see an icon in bottom right hand corner saying 'wireless connections available'? if so if you select your netgear router and enter the wireless password you created you should connect and everytime you start the laptop at home it should connect automatically
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