Home WI-FI Network

[seanbee20]

Hey i am new to this whole WI-FI things and in general networking. I have two laptops with built in wireless cards. What do i need to network them? and how do i do it?

[Malloc-X]

what u need to do is set up a WAP on one of the laptops. U do this by right clickin on the wireless card in ur network places then go to properties

1) then click on hte wireless tab

2) click advance and the bottom right

3) then select adhoc computer to computer network and click ok

4) then click add then type in what u want it to be named and u can messs around with the other options if u like

5) then click OK

6) then OK again

repeat steps 1 to 3 on the other laptop and and u should see the name of ur WAP in the to white box.

now right click ur wireless card and choose view available networks and choose urs then connect



now u have a WAP

[seanbee20]

Its that easy ;D, when i reach home i will give it a shot.

Thanks

How about now if i want to connect my desktop to this network, what do i need

[Ropy]

How about now if i want to connect my desktop to this network, what do i need


You would have to get a Wireless Adapter for the PC.

Wireless Adapters come in two forms, internal and external. Internal adapters are connected via an available PCI slot while the external version is connected via USB or ethernet.

This is what an internal adapter looks like.
http://img61.photobucket.com/albums/v185/BinaryPunk/wmp54g_v2.jpg

This is what an external adapter looks like.
http://img61.photobucket.com/albums/v185/BinaryPunk/wap54g.jpg

[seanbee20]

Thanks i have ordered an external adapter

[igodit]

Hey i am new to this whole WI-FI things and in general networking. I have two laptops with built in wireless cards. What do i need to network them? and how do i do it?


I would suggest you do it Ropy's way and buy a Access Point and setup the Wireless cards to work in Infrastructure mode rather than Ad-hoc. Ad-hoc limits you to a peer-to-peer connections.

[seanbee20]

What is the connection like on these things for say network games, is it better than 10/100 ethernet connection?

[Malloc-X]

it depends on what standard u get. there are 3 that i know of

802.11b (11 Mbits), 802.11a(22 Mbits) and 802.11g(aprox. 54 Mbits).

I would suggest u get u get B or G, becuase G is backward compatible with B.

[Malloc-X]

instead of using the external network adapter u can do what i said earlier and the computer that it is setup on will act like the external network adapter.

and that pic is a wireless router and u can connect any amount of PCs to ur adhoc wap

[seanbee20]

Service pack 2 comes with a neat facility to create a wireless network, so i used that to do the same

[igodit]

it depends on what standard u get. there are 3 that i know of

802.11b (11 Mbits), 802.11a(22 Mbits) and 802.11g(aprox. 54 Mbits).

I would suggest u get u get B or G, becuase G is backward compatible with B.


Actually Malloc-X 802.11a offers 54Mbits, 802.11g is the best of both 802.11a and 802.11b with distance and bandwidth.

[Chris]

Another thing seanbee, don't forget to activate/implement some form of Wi-Fi security like WEP or WPA.