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Ad-Hoc wifi not working

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suklee

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I'm in a hotel, have got 2 identical laptops here both running XP Home XP3, but only one connection via CAT5. I can't seem to get the 2 laptops to connect via adhoc wifi. are there any tips to making this work?

I followed a page on Microsoft's website which said to create a new wifi network, select adhoc, and give it a 13-digit WEP key. I did that on the "host" computer, and did the same on the second computer, but they don't seem to connect.

Would giving the internal network static IP addresses be the key?
 
Assuming that there is No Internet connection involvement.

Set the two Wireless card to static IP of the same subnet, like 192.168.1.10 and 192.168.1.20

Leave the security Off, and establish a connection. Set File sharing and when you can actualy share set the Wireless security.
 
Should I turn off ICS for the time being, is that what you are saying?

I do have Norton on both laptops (came pre-installed), I'll make sure to disable them and also XP firewall and try again... will update.
 
ICS is software Router is needed only if you want to use the Internet on both computers.

If you do want to use ICS, switch it On after you got the connection working.

If you use ICS the IPs should be 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2

Firewalls must allow the local IPs through.
 
I'm so close to getting it working. IPs for the wireless connectors are 192.168.0.1 (1st laptop) and 192.168.0.2 (2nd laptop).

1st laptop is connected to internet via CAT5, default gateway 192.168.1.1.

File sharing works, I shared a folder on the 2nd laptop.. added user accounts on both computers and I can see the folder and files from the 1st laptop.

Both computers can ping each other (192.168.0.1 and 0.2).

On 2nd laptop, I can ping 74.125.153.99 (www.google.com) and I DO get replies. I can even load the Google website at http://74.125.153.99. However I can't ping www.google.com directly which leads me to believe there is a DNS issue of some sort.

How should the DNS settings be set up? This is what I have now:

1) wired connection
IP = 192.168.1.100
Gateway/DNS = 192.168.1.1

wireless connection
IP = 192.168.0.1
Gateway/DNS = ??? I've tried both 1.1 and 0.1

2) wireless connection
IP = 192.168.0.2
Gateway/DNS = 192.168.0.1

On laptop #1 I've also played around a bit with the ICS settings - to allow "DNS" service and set it as 192.168.0.1.. but the 2nd laptop can't seem to use the DNS?

PS. I entered a public DNS server from http://theos.in/windows-xp/fre...ublic-dns-server-list/ and now I can access websites on 2nd laptop as expected. Any security concerns with using a public DNS server?
 
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