Wired and wireless and ad hoc and routed...

[Kazatan]

Ok i did read the stickies, but i have an inability to pick out the bits relevent. Im fairly sure i know whats going on but this is just to make sure i do...

Parts of the network:

ADSL/Router
4 PCs
2 Laptops

The router isnt a wireless one.
All the PCs connect to the router via a nice long cable
I would like to use a PCI wireless card i have in one of the PCs to connect the two laptops to the network.
Do i need special software or is it included in Windows XP?
What sort of resources does having 2 laptops connected through your pc use (i dont mean bandwidth wise, like processor wise, will it be noticable?)

 

[dangermouse]

you would have to have the pc on all the time to use the wifi on the laptops, wouldn't it be easier to get a wireless access point and add that to the network.

Otherwise, no special software is reuired for your idea, as far as I know. You just need to set up the wireless netwrk interface to use ad hoc mode, then point them at the pc as the default gateway.