do i need a router for a wireless network?

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sickofitall_uk

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Hello peeps,
to get to the point, I have bought a netgear WG511GE wireless card for a laptop and a netgear WG111GE usb dongle for my desktop. At the moment I am using internet connection sharing on my desktop pc to another pc on a wired network (just a crossover cable) My plan was to add the usb wireless dongle and share the connection with the laptop as well. Will this work?

I installed both pieces off hardware but thats about as far as I've got. When I go to the network's tab in the software I can see the other connection but I'm not sure if I'm connecting successfully. Nothing shows up in my Network places on either machine. And after having tried to setup a wireless network through windows (and creating the network disc which I installed on the laptop) I cant access the internet or anything.

I'm at a loss and the documentation with the hardware is useless! :(

Although it did mention I would need IPX installed which I did and static IP's which I'm not sure about.

Any help anybody can give me would be much appreciated!

Thanks!
 
I thought this (I've only ever had experience of connecting a psp up using ad hoc and infrastructure mode).

I've tried setting this up through windows but I get a message telling me I can't use windows to do it.

Anyone know of any step by step guides for setting up internet connection sharing over a wireless network using ad hoc, is this possible?

I assumed I would just install the cards and drivers, connect, and then go through the normal steps for setting up internet connection sharing but it doesn't work.

Netgear's site is rubbish as well.

I'm stumped :(
 
It is possible but I've had less than a 50% success rate and I got fed up with that so I bought a more reliable router.

You have to share the internet connection, then set the IP address for the wireless card like this:

IP 192.168.0.1
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: Leave blank
DNS: leave both blank

On the other PC you have to set the IP address like this:
IP 192.168.0.2
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.0.1
DNS 1.2.168.0.1 leave the second one blank

Set both the cards to use adhoc networks, then set the SSID, channel and any encryption manually.

Like I said, it's quite touch and go so don't get your hopes up too high.
 
Thanks a lot for the step by step guide, thats just what I was after. I can't belive how poor the isntructions you get with this equipment is, I thought it was a reasonably simple thing I was trying to find out!

I'll give this a try tomorrow if it doesn't work I may as well buy a wireless router (seems pointless to get a wap when the router wouldnt be that much more exspensive)

One more question, is it unwise to "mix n match" equipment? the two pieces of hardware I bought are by Netgear. Netgear's router's look a bit pricey compared to one by say Linksys.
 
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