BOAC
8th Mar 2007, 06:41
Hopelessly lost in wireless and network setup, and would appreciate some simple 'do this', tick that help.
Host has PCI wifi card: WinXP Pro SP2
New Laptop wifi enabled:Win XP Home (SP2)
Wireless modem/router (3Com)
Last night I was quite pleased - I had set up 2 wifi networks to connect:-
1) Host (desktop) to Client (laptop)
and
2)Host and Laptop to router
What I could not do was to get 1) to allow me to access files etc on other computer. Both individually showed themselves as Network places but did not show the other.
This morning I Googled and followed numerous 'advice' pages, setting this, changing that, ticking something else.
Now I can still link the 2 PC's wirelessly but they still cannot access each. I CANNOT access the internet via the router now from the host using wifi 2) Laptop still connects that way. I would like the option of using the Host's ADSL modem as a connection too with network 1), as an alternative to using 2) via the router.
I THOUGHT it was possible to setup a home network using just wifi, but most of the 'help' pages talk of wired ethernet. So, is it possible? If so, could someone please walk me through (or point me to a help site)? As said many times, why is this wifi/networking so complicated? I would have thought by now we luddites would have been offered a 'would you like to connect a to b' prompt etc etc
Host has PCI wifi card: WinXP Pro SP2
New Laptop wifi enabled:Win XP Home (SP2)
Wireless modem/router (3Com)
Last night I was quite pleased - I had set up 2 wifi networks to connect:-
1) Host (desktop) to Client (laptop)
and
2)Host and Laptop to router
What I could not do was to get 1) to allow me to access files etc on other computer. Both individually showed themselves as Network places but did not show the other.
This morning I Googled and followed numerous 'advice' pages, setting this, changing that, ticking something else.
Now I can still link the 2 PC's wirelessly but they still cannot access each. I CANNOT access the internet via the router now from the host using wifi 2) Laptop still connects that way. I would like the option of using the Host's ADSL modem as a connection too with network 1), as an alternative to using 2) via the router.
I THOUGHT it was possible to setup a home network using just wifi, but most of the 'help' pages talk of wired ethernet. So, is it possible? If so, could someone please walk me through (or point me to a help site)? As said many times, why is this wifi/networking so complicated? I would have thought by now we luddites would have been offered a 'would you like to connect a to b' prompt etc etc