Hi,

I am trying to setup a wireless network for an old lady across the street so that she can access the Internet on her laptop and I am having a bit of trouble getting it to work.

She has bought a Dynamode BR-6004 & a Dynamode USB wireless Adapter. I explained that she didn't need the adapter for her laptop as it already had one built in. However, it did come in handy later when I found that the PC has no Network card.

The Internet is on her main PC upstairs and is connected via a USB ADSL modem (a BT one). The USB wireless adapter is also plugged in to that PC and has established a wireless connection without any problems. The Laptop has also connected to the router without any problems.

So I tried to connect to the Internet but discovered it didn't work. Then I realised that I had to bridge the connection between the wireless router and the ADSL modem like you would in a wired environment. However even this didn't work and I am now at a loss as to what is going on. I tried setting up a routing table on the wireless router but that didn't have an affect.

Can someone please point in the direction of where I am going wrong or even if this is possible?

Thanks

LJR

P.S. I tried to setup security on the router by putting on WPA key. I setup a password that i thought was secure, rebooted the router and tried to connect. No luck. Cannot connect as the password need to be a certain length (even though the router says "enter between 8 and 63 characters).

So i reset the router to defaults and put in a 13 character password as windows told me to do. When i tried to connect again it kept telling me wireless networks were available but it wouldn't actually connect, it just looped without any error messages. Does someone know what is going on here?

Again, thanks

LJR

On the PC with the USB BT Modem and USB WiFi Adaptor you do not bridge the connection, you setup Internet Connection Sharing.

By default ICS will assign the WiFi Adap 192.168.0.1 and will expect the router to be 192.168.0.2, as ICS has a basic DHCP Server, subnet 255.255.255.000.

The router will hand out its own range of IP's to the Wireless laptop and undertake the NAT.

Thanks for the reply, I will give that a go as soon as possible :)

Does the IP that ICS expects matter and can it be changed?

The Modem uses 192.168.1.1 & 192.168.1.2 (I don't know why it uses both but if i type that in the browser to get to web management both of them work).

In order administer the router I had to disable the modems connection so that windows went through the wireless connection, this way I could get to 192.168.1.1 and was able to change it to 192.168.1.3

I am just wondering if this will be a problem?

Thanks

LJR

You could actually ditch the Router and use ICS on the PC as above, and setup an ad-hoc Wifi connection, see last article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310563

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...

The other alternative is to buy a combined modem/router/wifi:

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/12...