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Ad Hoc Networks

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fouadali

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I have 4 notebooks, they are highly mobile with NO base station and NO access points
What is the recipe (no general suggestions please) for building a secure mobile (wireless ) ad hoc network that is not going to cost a lot. No need to connect to the Internet or to any nearby LAN

I just need those four notebooks to talk to each other and to route to each other.
Even if A and C are not within range of each other but both are within range of B, I want them (A,C) to be able to communicate through B.

Many thanks
 
That would involve turning every card into a repeater and every notebook into a router.. I don't see any easy way of doing that (if it is even possible).
You'd need an AP that can function in repeater mode such as the Aironet products.

If you find a solution to this i'd like to hear about it though.
Good luck

DnetMHZ

 
Not really sure if this would work or not but XP has a bridging mode. What this would take would be costly because each laptop would need two wireless cards. The problem with this is frequency interference. So, each card would have to be hard set to a specific frequency which basically, after you set it up, would inhibit communication between specific notebooks. What your asking to do is what Access Points were designed to do. Thats your option really and you can turn an AP into a repeater as mentioned but understand you cut your bandwidth in half on an 802.11b device when you do that.
 
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