Wireless Networking...

[mart3ll]

Question:

If you have a PCMCIA Wireless Network Card in a Laptop, can you just buy a USB Wireless Network Adapter and do peer-to-peer for 2 computers that way or do you have to buy a Wireless Access Point router?

I'm looking at getting a Linksys PCMCIA and a USB Wireless Network adapter without a hub and hoping they can talk to each other on their own...

[FireRabbit]

Yup, that'll work. It's called 'Ad-Hoc' mode..just check the 'Ad-Hoc' checkbox when you add a new wireless connection and it should work.

Havent tried sharing internet access across it, but you shouldnt have any trouble (Using ICS).

[PsyOpWarlord]

Unlike wired networks, wireless networks have two different modes in which they may be set up: Infrastructure and Ad-Hoc. Choosing between these two modes depends on whether or not the wireless network needs to share data or

peripherals with a wired network or not.

If the wireless network is relatively small and needs to share resources only with the other computers on the wireless network, then the Ad-Hoc mode can be used. Ad-Hoc mode allows computers equipped with wireless transmitters and receivers to communicate directly with each other, eliminating the need for an access point. The drawback of this mode is in the fact that, in Ad-Hoc mode, wireless-equipped computers are not able to communicate with computers on a wired network. And, of course, communication between the wireless-equipped computers

is limited by the distance and interference

directly between them.

[mart3ll]

thanks guys.

I bought the Linksys PCMCIA and the USB Adapter and they wouldn't work. DO NOT buy these if you are using XP. Tech Support admitted to me that they dont work with each other. Wheee. I found that out after 10 hours of trying to get them to work.

I bought a D-Link DI-614+ AirPlus Router & Access Point and an AirPlus PCMCIA 650+ and my sweet lord, it was a breeze. Plugged the stuff in and what it showed on the screenshots in the intallation walkthrough mapped the process perfectly! Flawless.

D-Link wins in my books.

[PureEdit]

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Originally posted by grafXguru

thanks guys.

I bought the Linksys PCMCIA and the USB Adapter and they wouldn't work. DO NOT buy these if you are using XP. Tech Support admitted to me that they dont work with each other. Wheee. I found that out after 10 hours of trying to get them to work.

I bought a D-Link DI-614+ AirPlus Router & Access Point and an AirPlus PCMCIA 650+ and my sweet lord, it was a breeze. Plugged the stuff in and what it showed on the screenshots in the intallation walkthrough mapped the process perfectly! Flawless.

D-Link wins in my books.

Yeah, people told me linksys was better, but I got a D-Link pccard and access point, for almost half the price, and it works great :)

[PsyOpWarlord]

Actually the Linksys has worked great for me but I haven't tried their USB ... I have a D-link wireless PCI card and it works with my Linksys Wireless Router ...

I have the following:

Linksys BEFW11S4 EtherFast? Wireless AP + Cable/DSL Router w/4-Port Switch

http://www.linksys.com/Products/product.as...rid=23&prid=173

Linksys WMP11 Instant Wireless PCI Card

http://www.linksys.com/products/product.as...rid=22&prid=196

DLink AirPlus DWL-520+ PCI Card

http://www.dlink.com/products/digitalHome/...s/11b+/dwl520+/

I believe my brother has a DLink Wireless Router and a Linksys wireless PCI card and a Linksys PCMCIA card that all plays together ... Both of us have WinXP on all our computers ...