Need help on setting up a network.

[snowpeas]

This is the situation. I have 2 computers as of now. THe primary computer has 2 NICs, using ICS from winxp to share the internet connection to the 2nd pc. I chose not to use a router because i use p2p software, and their are very intensive, and the routers on todays market are too weak to handle that level of stress that the p2p software like bittorrent or emule has. THis is why i use ICS, instead of using a router from linksys or dlink

Anyways, I'm buying 2 more pc. And i want to put them in different rooms. So I want my primary pc, to act as a wireless router so it can share the internet to all of my 3 other pcs, wirelessly.

If there a hardware that will allow me to do this?

 

[bravo261]

i'm sure what you're asking can be done, but through software and not hardware, but what makes you think a router can't handle bittorrent or emule? if anything, i'd say the router works much better as the sharing is hardware and not software based. plus, ICS requires the host computer to be online or all three others are idle.

that said, everybody uses p2p and i'm sure they all have routers instead of ICS. truly bud, you've been told wrong, but if i'm wrong, the trouble isn't worth setting a server and 3 clients, given that the internet will always be your bottleneck, and not your network

 

[Zee]

I agree with ^. get a router. a good one. what kind of cheap ass routers have you been looking at?

 

[Cheetah8799]

I chose not to use a router because i use p2p software, and their are very intensive, and the routers on todays market are too weak to handle that level of stress that the p2p software like bittorrent or emule has. THis is why i use ICS, instead of using a router from linksys or dlink

I have to disagree with you there. I use a Netgear MR814v2 router and it handles my bittorrent downloads just fine.

My advice to you is to just get a router from Netgear or DLink and set that up. It will save you a lot of time and hassle, in my opinion.

Anyway, if you want to do it your way, I think if you set your wireless cards in "Ad-Hoc" mode, that may work for you. I'm not 100% sure, but I think so.

 

[snowpeas]

I've tried SMC, Dlink, and Linksys. All well known brands. I'm sure most of you know p2p works by connecting to other people and sharing sources that you have. Due to the great amount of connections that it has to make, it usually crash my router or gives me lowid with emule. BT usually doesn't really give me any problem, but emule/edonkey crashes the router.

bravo261:"that said, everybody uses p2p and i'm sure they all have routers instead of ICS. truly bud, you've been told wrong, but if i'm wrong, the trouble isn't worth setting a server and 3 clients, given that the internet will always be your bottleneck, and not your network"

And im not saying that the router is bottling up my connection, i have a 10mbit line so that doesn't really matter. And if most of you look at dslreports forum, a lot of people have problem with routers handling the numerous of connections that p2p software have to establish.

 

[Fiveohhh]

When I used to use emule I had the client connection at about 1500 hard limit and never had a problem with my 4 year old $40 dlink crashing, I've only reset it maybe 4-5 times since I got it and than it could have been my modem I just reset em all. For a solution to your probem, just get a switch and some sort of WAP.. or you could probably get a wireless router and disable the router part

 

[trublunite]

This might be your solution:

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[bravo261]

i only use about 500 connections on emule, and have never had crashes on my router. haven't tried the 1000+ limit though. i've had the linksys befsw-something(that really popular one), a belkin 54g, and now a netgear wtg624ish router and they've all behaved with emule and bittorrent. speeds are slow when both run, but that's not a router issue

lowid's are hard to take care of though the process is easy to do. that said, i haven't received a lowid in nearly a year. but i feel for ya, as lowids are a pain and helplessness sets in quickly

 

[mikie8]

a low id has nothing to do with the connection type but the firwall insted .
a router will work perfectly with BT and Ed2k programs as network protacolling is what a router does .
if a nic can handle it so can a router even a cheap one .

sort out the firewall and no more low id probs .