I am wondering on how to connect to seperate LAN's for file sharing. Both of us have separate broadband providers and wireless routers. I know sharing files is much faster via lan then when sharing via broadband. How can we share files on seperate networks and keep our own seperate broadband connections. My router is setup DHCP 192.168.0.1 subnet 255.255.255.0 his router is also DHCP 192.168.1.1 subnet 25.255.255.0 How do you mix two seperate networks without crashing both networks? Do I need some kind of device to connect each network into? Thanks ASUS A7V8X Athlon XP 2700+ @ 2.17ghz 1GB DDR 2700 nVidia 128mb FX 5200 WD 80gb SE NEC ND-3500AG DVD R/RW

There are many ways you could do this. I believe the easiest/simplest way to accomplish what you are asking would be to use this software. Run it on the PC's that you want to share files between, it should do the trick.

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You'd need a router with links to both networks. i.e., you'd need a box with 2 wireless nic's, one interface on 192.168.0.0 and the other on 192.168.1.0. It would be your gateway, then add static routes to point traffic to the correct next hop on ur PC's.

You don't need either software OR hardware. see the answer here: http://www.computing.net/networking... PS this statement "...sharing files is much faster via lan then when sharing via broadband" isn't true. Since file sharing is lan not wan broadband has nothing to do with it. Knowing the correct answer and giving a correct answer, are two different things

Fritty, I guess i failed to mention I would like to be able to do this preferably over the local area network then via WAN. The way I figure even our wireless G @ 54mb/s is way faster then what we could upload via the internet. I only get about a 66kbps top upload speed using ftp. wanderer I guess I generically used the word broadband to refer to the broadband internet or WAN. If i'm right all networks have some form of broadband ? Anyhow I would like to do this without running a cat5 from house to house if possible? It would be stretching over 300'. & Fist could I just use a computer with one connection hardwired to my router and a wireless nic connected to his router? I understand "one interface on 192.168.0.0 and the other on 192.168.1.0" but don't understand "add static routes to point traffic to the correct next hop on ur PC's". So how could I make or combine both networks? Basically so we always have our shared drives visible to each other without having to swap IP's and connect to different routers. I don't want to load balance or try and increase bandwidth just allow each of us to share our files. Mainly like music & movies. ASUS A7V8X Athlon XP 2700+ @ 2.17ghz 1GB DDR 2700 nVidia 128mb FX 5200 WD 80gb SE NEC ND-3500AG DVD R/RW

Yes you could, you'd need to enable IP forwarding on the box so it'll route packets between interfaces -- supposedly IP forwarding is supported on XP home & pro, I've never done it in windows, here's an MSKB aritlce on it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315236 Basically, get IP forwarding enabled & both IF's up, then both of you need to add a static route. Reading up on classless addressing or CIDR might help explain this more. Say that your newly created box has 2 IP addresses, 192.168.1.10 & 192.168.0.10 On your router (192.168.1.1), log in & create a static route, make it: network: 192.168.0.0 mask: 255.255.255.0 Next hop: 192.168.1.10 Metric: 1 That is, 192.168.0.0/24 can be reached VIA 192.168.1.10 Now on ur neighbor's router, he needs to do the same thing, only for his network, so from his 192.168.0.1: Network: 192.168.1.0 Mask: 255.255.255.0 Next hop: 192.168.0.10 Metric; 1 And that will direct traffic destined for 192.168.1.0 to go thru 192.168.0.10. Now the only issue you'll run into, is keeping the WLAN link up, hehe.