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Home Wireless Network Setup
Name: NahhaB Date: November 12, 2005 at 13:37:49 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: 2.4GH/512MB
Comment:
Hi, I want to build a small home wireless network which consist of one desktop with no wi-fi capability. and a laptop with wi-fi. All I want is to connect to interent using my desktop through dialup and share this connection with the laptop. I bought a wireless access point with is a router too. It has 4 ethernet ports and one WAN port which I think is not needed in my case since I have a dialup.
my question is, can I have the above network setup using the router as a hub so the desktop can allow laptop to use the dialup connection?
Name: RWD1996 Date: November 12, 2005 at 19:36:32 Pacific
Reply:
Yes, that will work, but do you have an ethernet card for the desktop too?
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Response Number 2
Name: INH Date: November 13, 2005 at 08:18:05 Pacific
Reply:
You will need an ethernet card in the desktop
Attatch the WAN port of the router to the desktop ethernet card, and enable microsoft Internet connection sharing on your dialup connection Connect to the router from the laptop and follow the router instructions for setting up internet access and wireless.
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Response Number 3
Name: NahhaB Date: November 13, 2005 at 14:33:09 Pacific
Reply:
Thats good news,
I will go ahead and try this setup. I expect to get back to you soon :).
Thanks a lot guys.
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Response Number 4
Name: sherry Date: November 22, 2005 at 12:38:30 Pacific
Reply:
I'm doing a school project where i'm trying to have a centralized connectivity from one central office to hare with four workstations in four other states with 30 PC's in one office 25 in another and 25 in the last and 70 laptops in the other state. How many servers will I need to accomplish this task.
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