Question about my network at home

[Justorq]

I already have a wireless network at home that works fine, but my brother who just got a laptop for his job, doesn't have a wireless network card. He doesn't want to pay 80$CAN just to get one. So now I'm trying to figure out what i can do ... I thought that because my computer is connected wirelessly to the router, I can connect my bro's laptop to it which would be then sharing the connection. So I bought a crossed network cable and tried connecting the two computers. My computer instantly recognised that i had a new connection somewhere. But because my bro has Windows NT (a very castrated version of it), I really don't know what to do at his end. So now I'm asking for your help people. What should I do (and i need details ... cuz i suck at networking).
Thx in advance,
Justin

PS : I did post this in the networking forum .... but no one answered

 

[Lifer]

u thought wrong.
u need to run ICS or 3rd party proxy server s/w on ur PC.

 

[Justorq]

can you tell me how does it work ?? me=noob

 

[MercenaryForHire]

What OS are you running on your machine? IIRC, everything from 98SE upward has ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) built in.

Basically, you need your system to be both a client (to wireless) and a server (to your brother).

- M4H

 

[Lifer]

if he had winXP, could he bridge the LAN/Wifi connections as a seperate network segment to get the other PC online?

 

[Justorq]

I have WinXP
and that's what im trying to figure out ... ill try the ICS first