My wireless router (Speedstream 2623) died, so I put my
old router (Speedstream 2301, into a 4 port e-net hub)
back, to hold me over until they fix it. It's:
CaModem->Router->Hub==2-Desktop-computers. One computer
has a Microsoft MN-510 USB wireless adaptor. I'm using
this to link my laptop w/ORiNOCO Silver PC card.
Everything's P4's and XP home. These all work fine. The
router is 192.168.254.254, because XP wants 192.168.0.1
for XP. I've set up the ad hoc, enabled ICS on the
ethernet port of that desktop, ran the wizards until my
knuckles turned blued, rebooted a few zillion times,
tried numerous gateway designations, etc., andit's still
flaky. Sometimes I can get it to work. It'll keep
working until I take the laptop out of range for a
while. Then it's back to futzing with a couple more days
to get it working again.
I've been running tcp/ip since the '80's. But I'm more
accustomed to doing my own configurations. Somne aspects
of Windoze /ip (dare I use both in the same sentence ;-)
escape my logic (i.e. network bridges - which never seem
to work).
Yeah, I know, I should buy a cheap access point and be
done with it. But the machine has challenged me, and I'm
detertmined to beat it at its own game. Besides, I'm a
cheapskate.
As I see it, Windoze defaults to only direct connects or
single hop. Mine is a two hopper. So I probably need a
gateway and/or perm'd routing.
I've thoroughly read the Microsoft article on ad hoc
internet connection sharing. It didn't work on my stuff,
but it does have a lot of useful information and more han
a step in the right direction.
Any suggestions, references, etc., would be most
appreciated
-mike curtis
ironNOSPAMman<at>ironmanDIESPAMDIEcurtis<dot>com
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