Ok - here is the story-
In less than a month, I'll be attending a college that has their network (net') wireless, so me being the techie that I am decided to save some money and go ahead and buy two wireless nics and save a lil' moolah.
I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 and a custom built desktop- one cardbus nic, and one desktop nic = no problem so far. I'm only going to be home for another month, so I decided not to bite the bullet and buy a WAP.
This is my home setup-
One gateway comp (dialup) running to a Linksys Etherfast 10/100 8 port hub, w/ two desktops hooked up to the hub sharin the net fine- and my lappy connected works well connected too- (All running XP PRO)
My question is this:
The nics I bought (D-link DWL-520+ <PCI> and D-link DWL-650+ <cardbus>) are capable of "talking" to each other w/out a WAP-
This is what I'd like to do:
The PCI wireless nic is in one of my desktops (not the gateway) and I'd like to share the net connection it shares w/the gateway over the wireless link. I'd have to disconnect the cat-5 cable on the lappy which is y I want wireless.
Is it possible to do this?
Things I've already done:
Tried tricking xp into sharing a shared connection = no go
Tried a simple proxy server from analog x = no go
By the way, the "network" the two wireless cards "create" does work, file swapping works well ----but that's bout it
sorry for the ramble, just a frustrated college kid (soon to be) a little new to wireless networks that would like a little guidance from the guru's
any help is greatly appreciated
Jonathan
In less than a month, I'll be attending a college that has their network (net') wireless, so me being the techie that I am decided to save some money and go ahead and buy two wireless nics and save a lil' moolah.
I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 and a custom built desktop- one cardbus nic, and one desktop nic = no problem so far. I'm only going to be home for another month, so I decided not to bite the bullet and buy a WAP.
This is my home setup-
One gateway comp (dialup) running to a Linksys Etherfast 10/100 8 port hub, w/ two desktops hooked up to the hub sharin the net fine- and my lappy connected works well connected too- (All running XP PRO)
My question is this:
The nics I bought (D-link DWL-520+ <PCI> and D-link DWL-650+ <cardbus>) are capable of "talking" to each other w/out a WAP-
This is what I'd like to do:
The PCI wireless nic is in one of my desktops (not the gateway) and I'd like to share the net connection it shares w/the gateway over the wireless link. I'd have to disconnect the cat-5 cable on the lappy which is y I want wireless.
Is it possible to do this?
Things I've already done:
Tried tricking xp into sharing a shared connection = no go
Tried a simple proxy server from analog x = no go
By the way, the "network" the two wireless cards "create" does work, file swapping works well ----but that's bout it
sorry for the ramble, just a frustrated college kid (soon to be) a little new to wireless networks that would like a little guidance from the guru's
any help is greatly appreciated
Jonathan
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