Peer to peer wireless connection.

[BigFatCow]

Me and a buddy of mine setup wireless internet sharing and we got it to work just fine the only problem is we both have A/B/G cards in our laptops and we are only connected at 11Mbps. Does anyone know how i can get our connection to be connected at 54Mbps?

 

[Devistater]

One big factor is missing. What is the wireless router (or AP)? Is it g or b? Wireless cards cant do anything without the router being capable of it.

BTW, the actual max throughput on a b connection is more like 6mbit. The actual max throughput on a g connection is more like 25-35mbit. Either of these is enough for 99% of all DSL/cable internet connections. Especially considering that 99% of all dsl modems (and I think cable too) have the 10mbit network technology inside.

So either of these restrictions shouldn't hurt internet or gaming in any way.

Now if you are doing file transfers the extra speed of the g can be really helpful. But if you are doing many gigs a day, you should probaby use wired 100mbit (I dunno if gigabit is practical with laptops) connections anyway.

 

[BigFatCow]

Originally posted by: Devistater
One big factor is missing. What is the wireless router (or AP)? Is it g or b? Wireless cards cant do anything without the router being capable of it.

BTW, the actual max throughput on a b connection is more like 6mbit. The actual max throughput on a g connection is more like 25-35mbit. Either of these is enough for 99% of all DSL/cable internet connections. Especially considering that 99% of all dsl modems (and I think cable too) have the 10mbit network technology inside.

So either of these restrictions shouldn't hurt internet or gaming in any way.

Now if you are doing file transfers the extra speed of the g can be really helpful. But if you are doing many gigs a day, you should probaby use wired 100mbit (I dunno if gigabit is practical with laptops) connections anyway.

We are just doing peer to peer so we dont have an access point.

 

[Uncle Flappy]

In device manager, you should be able to force the mode of the wireless NIC. Manually choose 802.11g on both NICs and see what happens.

 

[just4geeks]

Do you have windows Xp SP2? If yes, I can reply to you the procedure.

 

[bersl2]

FYI: The reason ad-hoc is connecting at 11 Mbps max is because the g and a standards' modulation techniques are technically not approved for ad-hoc. At least, this is the impression that my card's documentation gives me.

 

[just4geeks]

I have setup a adhoc wireless network over two Dell Inspiron 700m laptops with 54Mbps max. They are equipped with Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG Cards. Both have windows xp home + SP2

 

[2canSAM]

just4geeks, what is the procedure as I have this issue as well, running XPSP2 (MCE2005) on both boxes.