Will this work?

typk · 17 Oct 2008 at 22:43

Me and my mates are getting real bored in the boarding house. We all have pretty good laptops that can play most of the latest games is there any way that we can have a wlan tournament? we don't have a wireless router to connect to, so i was wondering if there was anyway i could set up my laptop so they could connect, but also let me play with them.

Is this possible?

Thanks

AtaRo · 17 Oct 2008 at 22:57

you can connect 2 pc/laptop using a crossover cable more than that you need a switch.

typk · 17 Oct 2008 at 22:59

is there no way to treat my laptop as a router/host?

AtaRo · 17 Oct 2008 at 23:08

Im not sure if you can play games using ad hoc networking but check this out How to connect two computers using a direct Wi-Fi

Locky · 17 Oct 2008 at 23:31

I think you can if your wireless adapter allows it to be set up as a wireless access point.

tolien · 17 Oct 2008 at 23:33

Not unless you have software that'll make the wireless card in one machine work in infrastructure mode as an AP.

Locky · 17 Oct 2008 at 23:46

Yeah I though so, I think best op can do is get everyone to chip in and buy your self a cheap wireless hub/router.

AtaRo · 18 Oct 2008 at 00:10

or you can play online games if you can find some open wifi in your area

typk · 18 Oct 2008 at 11:35

I might just buy a cheap wireless router as suggested.
If anyone has any ideas or finds a guide please post.

I found this guide http://www.online-tech-tips.com/cool-websites/home-computer-router/

Will this make it possible?

tolien · 18 Oct 2008 at 11:50

No. That only enables ICS, it won't change anything with your wireless card. You're not looking to change it into a router, but into a wireless access point.

typk · 18 Oct 2008 at 12:02

Oh ok.
Found another guide http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ADpHIeBSFUk

I think all they guides are doing is showing how to share the internet connection.

Is there anyway to actually do this or am i just going round in a circle?

J.B · 18 Oct 2008 at 12:38

Me and my mate used to do an Ad-Hoc wireless connection between our 2 computers to play games. Only this it works with 2 computers though.

tolien · 18 Oct 2008 at 13:26

Tizzer said:
Is there anyway to actually do this or am i just going round in a circle?

If your wireless card didn't come with software to do it, you're probably stuck.

cavemanoc · 21 Oct 2008 at 21:18

Really left field - but if you have 2 wireless connections in each machine (built in plus a cheapo usb one perhaps?) could you not set up a ring of ad-hoc networks with each one bridged?

ie:

1>2&3
2>3&1
3>1&2

So machine 1 has the internal card ad-hoc'd to 2 and the USB dongle to machine 3, with the 2 connections bridged?

Building from that, what would happen if you had more and daisy chained them ie:

1>2&3
2>3&4
3>4&5
5>1&2

All of them are now connected to each other via others within the loop - would it work?