Bridge Help

[em]

Hello..

I have a laptop with wirless internet access and would
like to be able to share this access when I am visiting a
friend who doesnt have itnernet access. I think bridging
will work but have tried configuring and haven't had any
luck

Please help, thanks in advance

em

 

[Malke]

Hello..

I have a laptop with wirless internet access and would
like to be able to share this access when I am visiting a
friend who doesnt have itnernet access. I think bridging
will work but have tried configuring and haven't had any
luck

Please help, thanks in advance

em

Will your wireless access point transmit all the way to your friend's
house? A bridge is used to make a network where there are several
wireless access points. Does your friend live next door so s/he could
get the signal from your transmitter? Think of your wireless cable/dsl
router as a transmitter. What you have in your laptop is a receiver.
Give us some more details about what you are trying to do, including
information about your Internet access at home.

Malke

 

[meetm]

Malke, Thanks for writing back.

I have a Sierrawireless 555
http://www.sierrawireless.com/ProductsOrdering/AC5551xRTT.asp and have
internet access through this card, I want to be able to use the LAN
connection (RJ45) on my laptop to let my friend connect to the internet
throught my laptop when I visit. Her PC has a network card in it but isn't
connected to a network or doesn't have a modem for internent access, she can
only use it for software programs and games, etc.

Thanks for your help.

em

 

[Malke]

Malke, Thanks for writing back.

I have a Sierrawireless 555
http://www.sierrawireless.com/ProductsOrdering/AC5551xRTT.asp and have
internet access through this card, I want to be able to use the LAN
connection (RJ45) on my laptop to let my friend connect to the
internet
throught my laptop when I visit. Her PC has a network card in it but
isn't connected to a network or doesn't have a modem for internent
access, she can only use it for software programs and games, etc.

Hi, Em. As I asked in my first post, does your friend live next door?
There is a limit to how far your Sierrawireless will transmit. Again,
think of the Sierrawireless access point as a *transmitter*. Each
computer that connects using this access point has to have a
*receiver*, which is your wireless pc card (or built-in wireless card
in your laptop). Just connecting an ethernet cable from your friend's
desktop to your laptop's lan port isn't going to do anything except
give your friend access to your laptop's files (if you've shared the
files, set up the networking properly, and are using a crossover
cable). Your friend needs to buy Internet access from an Internet
Service Provider or come to your house when she wants to use the
Internet.

Malke

 

[meetm]

Thanks for sticking with me, I probably didn't make it clear that this card
gives me wireless internet access from anywhere in the USA that Verizon
wireless has service so it isn't a distance from my "wireless router" issue
it is about getting the proper bridge between my wireless connection to the
internent and my onboard network adapter (3C920) on my dell laptop so I can
then connect to her PC via a patch cable (probably crossover) so she can
share my PC internent access on my wireless card.

Thanks for your help.

erle

 

[Malke]

Thanks for sticking with me, I probably didn't make it clear that this
card gives me wireless internet access from anywhere in the USA that
Verizon wireless has service so it isn't a distance from my "wireless
router" issue it is about getting the proper bridge between my
wireless connection to the internent and my oLangard network adapter
(3C920) on my dell laptop so I can then connect to her PC via a patch
cable (probably crossover) so she can share my PC internent access on
my wireless card.

No, you didn't mention any of the details. Perhaps you could try:

1. Create a network between her computer and yours by making her a
member of your workgroup and adding her user account and password
(matching the ones on hers, of course) to your computer. Share out
resources appropriately on yours. You could join her computer to your
network as you suggest, with a crossover cable. Now she's part of your
lan.

2. Then use Windows Internet Connection Sharing to make your computer
the gateway and have her get her access from your machine. This makes
your machine 192.168.1.1 (or whatever ICS default is - look it up in
XP's Help & Support) and hers 192.168.1.2. However, I don't know if
this will affect your own Internet access or not.

You could try it and if doesn't work, then oh well. Just put everything
back the way it was. Certainly you should document your own Internet
settings before changing anything and make a System Restore point
before you make any changes for safety.

Do let me know how things turn out, and good luck.

Malke