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My cable co is misconfigured and I can lease as many real Internet (Non-NAT) IP addresses as I want through a regular network. I use a plain hub at home to get all my PCs online.
To get my laptop online, I first simply configured 802.11b Ad-Hoc and bridged the connection between my wired network card and my 802.11b card using Windows XP's bridging capabilities. My laptop recieved an IP from my ISP and was online.
However, browsing web sites would only work for a few minutes before things started timeing out and downloads would cancel. Sometimes, it would snap back and start working again a few minutes later, but it would usually just "stay broke."
It tried increasing my ping timeouts and noticed that during these periods when websites were working, ping times with popular web site domains were normal (12-88ms), but when it would enevitably crap out pings jumped to 33,000ms.
I downloaded the bootable Linux distribution with built-in access point software (www.sputnik.com) and it did not work for me. Sometimes it boot would claim to work but the default Sputnik page would always have an error of some kind. Other times it would hang while configureing networking settings.
I've tried it all on 3 very different systems and none can do it right. Sharing through NAT and firewalls screw up half of my games and applications and is way too much bother for someone who doesn't care about being "seen" on the Internet. So can someone help me achieve my ideal setup? Thanks!
To get my laptop online, I first simply configured 802.11b Ad-Hoc and bridged the connection between my wired network card and my 802.11b card using Windows XP's bridging capabilities. My laptop recieved an IP from my ISP and was online.
However, browsing web sites would only work for a few minutes before things started timeing out and downloads would cancel. Sometimes, it would snap back and start working again a few minutes later, but it would usually just "stay broke."
It tried increasing my ping timeouts and noticed that during these periods when websites were working, ping times with popular web site domains were normal (12-88ms), but when it would enevitably crap out pings jumped to 33,000ms.
I downloaded the bootable Linux distribution with built-in access point software (www.sputnik.com) and it did not work for me. Sometimes it boot would claim to work but the default Sputnik page would always have an error of some kind. Other times it would hang while configureing networking settings.
I've tried it all on 3 very different systems and none can do it right. Sharing through NAT and firewalls screw up half of my games and applications and is way too much bother for someone who doesn't care about being "seen" on the Internet. So can someone help me achieve my ideal setup? Thanks!