- Jun 24, 2001
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I wasn't able to get much help here before, but I did find other information on the net suggesting that XP has some issues when bridging with wireless networks.
Basically, I needed real outside Internet IP addresses and my cable company provides one for every computer connected to my dumb hub. Non-standard wireless gaming and Internet filesharing appeal to me, so NAT, ICS and firewals/routers were not an option (I don't care about filesharing or other network functions and have no need to lock down my computer. No matter what exploits are discovered, my information is not so important to sacrifice functionality for).
So, I bought two $40 Prism2 chipset cards with free PCI adapters and bridged one with a connected network card. It worked and all PCs were online with outside IP addresses, but the wireless connection was indescribably unuseable. After about a few seconds to 2 minutes, the connection would seemingly crap out on me (Web sites timing out, downloads slowing and stopping, etc). Sure enough, Pings to certain websites were jumping from 800-to-69,000ms (Yes, I has to use some switches to get those results
) compared to ~20ms on my other computers. This was all no matter where the laptop was. Keeping it two feet away from the bridge made no difference. Using NAT or ICS did. Everything was fine as long as my ISP wasn't DHCPing the wireless IP address. DAMN.
I checked here, but no one could help then. I tried the web, but all I could find were a few references to XP's bridging which passively mentioned but didn't specify a problem with wireless network bridging. Remember, I only experienced the problem because I WASN'T using NAT.
Since then, I have purchased a draft-802.11g Broadcom-chipset wireless router and used it without the routing functions and given no thought to the previous issue. Can anyone shed any light on it now?
Basically, I needed real outside Internet IP addresses and my cable company provides one for every computer connected to my dumb hub. Non-standard wireless gaming and Internet filesharing appeal to me, so NAT, ICS and firewals/routers were not an option (I don't care about filesharing or other network functions and have no need to lock down my computer. No matter what exploits are discovered, my information is not so important to sacrifice functionality for).
So, I bought two $40 Prism2 chipset cards with free PCI adapters and bridged one with a connected network card. It worked and all PCs were online with outside IP addresses, but the wireless connection was indescribably unuseable. After about a few seconds to 2 minutes, the connection would seemingly crap out on me (Web sites timing out, downloads slowing and stopping, etc). Sure enough, Pings to certain websites were jumping from 800-to-69,000ms (Yes, I has to use some switches to get those results
) compared to ~20ms on my other computers. This was all no matter where the laptop was. Keeping it two feet away from the bridge made no difference. Using NAT or ICS did. Everything was fine as long as my ISP wasn't DHCPing the wireless IP address. DAMN.I checked here, but no one could help then. I tried the web, but all I could find were a few references to XP's bridging which passively mentioned but didn't specify a problem with wireless network bridging. Remember, I only experienced the problem because I WASN'T using NAT.
Since then, I have purchased a draft-802.11g Broadcom-chipset wireless router and used it without the routing functions and given no thought to the previous issue. Can anyone shed any light on it now?
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