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WMD:

--- Quote ---I setup a network on the Powerbook, and the Windows laptop isn't detecting it. So... How do I make sure the Windows laptop's card is in ad-hoc mode?
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Usually using the software that came with the card.  Maybe Windows has that in the wireless settings.  You may have to look in the Device Manager for the card, and find it there.

piratePenguin:
OK we got broadband installed yesterday (w00t!), so I wanna get this wireless network sorted. I haven't had any success with ad-hoc yet.

The antenna thing is connected to the Windows computer via _ethernet_. So now, for a wireless network, could I just buy an access point and plug the ethernet from the antenna into that and then the whole house can share wirelessly (at least the laptops, and then the desktops when I get wireless cards for them)? Is that what these access points are used for?

I'm not sure about this whole 'ad-hoc' thing... Can't get it working between the powerbook or the other laptop, so I dunno if it'd be possible to work for about 5 comps...

solemnwarning:
from sounds of it you will need a wireless router not a wap, a wap\router acts just like a hub will in a cabled network, btw wap gas massive pings so even though 802.11g goes at 55meg i can barely get 500k bandwidth through it

so if you can i would recommend using normal network cable

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: solemnwarning ---from sounds of it you will need a wireless router not a wap, a wap\router acts just like a hub will in a cabled network, btw wap gas massive pings so even though 802.11g goes at 55meg i can barely get 500k bandwidth through it

So if you can i would recommend using normal network cable
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It's a 728kb/sec connection... I would've thought it'd work well with 802.11g. Anyone else sharing broadband over a wireless network, do the other computers get it full speed?

A wireless router... What's the difference between a wireless access point and a wireless router? Can an access point connect to a wireless network _and_ a cabled network (which I think is what I want)?


Basically, I want something that takes in ethernet and spurts out wireless radio things ;)










(I think.)

bedouin:

--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---A wireless router... What's the difference between a wireless access point and a wireless router? Can an access point connect to a wireless network _and_ a cabled network (which I think is what I want)?
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A wireless access point does not do NAT, at all; it just plugs into an already existing hub or switch and allows that network to be accessed wirelessly.  These are useful for extending the range of a wireless network, or useful if you prefer to use a Linux or BSD machine to do your routing for you.

Nowadays a vanilla access point is probably more difficult to find, and more expensive than a standard wireless router, which would eliminate the need for any machine to be on 24-7 doing NAT; you would plug your cable modem and wired machines into the router, and it would handle everything else on its own, including stuff like DHCP.

Find a wireless router for $20-30 and save yourself a ton of aggravation.  Only reason someone would want to do what you're doing is if they  preferred using Linux or BSD for their firewall/NAT; since you'd be using a Windows to do your routing it's kind of pointless.  Not to mention whenever your brother reboots the entire network's access to the Internet goes along with it.

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