Wireless

[ChrisNews]

Hi, I'm wanting to network 2 computers at home with 2 PCI wireless network
cards, and I was wondering if someone could let me know whether this was
viable with the 2 PC's I have. One is an XP2600 running WindowsXP, and the
other an AMD K6 2 300 running Windows 98SE. Anybody know if these machines
can be wireless networked?

 

[mo]

do you have a wireless router or an Access Point (AP)? if so, then it
is possible. you can configure your wireless router or AP to be a DHCP
server and then configure each computer to obtain ip address
dynamically.

for each of the computers, you need to do:

Start > Settings > Network Connections > right click your wirelss nic
connection > select properties > under general tab, select Internet
Protocol (TCP/IP) then click Properties > select the radio button named
Obtain an ip address automatically.

to configure the wireless router or AP, follow the instructions that
came with it.

 

[Tony]

Hi, I'm wanting to network 2 computers at home with 2 PCI wireless network
cards, and I was wondering if someone could let me know whether this was
viable with the 2 PC's I have. One is an XP2600 running WindowsXP, and the
other an AMD K6 2 300 running Windows 98SE. Anybody know if these machines
can be wireless networked?

Yes you can network them with just PCI wireless cards. Set them up in
ad-hoc mode.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/bowman_02april08.mspx
might be helpful for the XP one. With W98 you will be dependent on the set
up that comes with the card.

 

[ChrisNews]

Thanks Tony, I've printed that page out to read later