Sick to fking death of trying to setup wireless between two laptops (6 hours so far).
I have broadband upstairs on a laptop & want to share the connection with another laptop downstairs (so my son can do CBeebies etc). Ideally I want the ability to print (upstairs). Surely it can't be that difficult ? What are my options before the "wireless" linksys router gets flushed down the pan & then rammed down the throat of the first spotty oik I find in PC World tomorrow ?

D

P.S. If anyone's in near to Reading & wants a few quid to set it up PM me !

 

Hello

What's the problem, what doesn't work? You have a router and each laptop has a wireless card?

Can either of the laptops see the router? Have you managed to go in and configure the router so it connects to ADSL?

Steve

 

As above, not sure how far you've got but...
Once you have established the network connection, on the machine with the printer attached, go to My Computer, Control Panel, Printers, right click on the printer that you want to share with the other laptop and click on Sharing. Configure the sharing.

Then the other laptop should see the printer.

 

Ok nearly calmed down now
The main problem is the laptop(XP) I want to connect direct to the router (hard wire) can't ping it, where as the Win 2000 one can. Device manager shows the n/wk card as fine, I did (at one point) get both to run ADSL on wireless, but it's not ideal to have a 2mb connection running at wieless speed (c.25%) I've tried disabling firewalls but to no avail.....thoughts appreciated !

Thks,

D

 

Normal causes are: Windows firewall+ third party firewall, wrong cable (crossover instead of patch), not set to automatic IP in network settings, or mac address of default network card not cloned.

Can you not even get into the router with the base address e.g. 192.168.1.1. ?

 

Tried disabling the XP firewall, although I didn't think AVG (the free one) has a firewall, I can ping it from the Win2000 lappie but not from the Dell with XP (&AVG).

D

 

Hi Dunk

I do all this sort of stuff for a living but it very difficult to help
sending one or so messages back & fourt at a time

if you want you can ring me and i can talk you though it
e:mail me tjwoody@btinternet.com with your e:mail address and i will send you my phone number.

Tony

 

Tony,

YGM

D