cable to wifi

(newbie from UK)
Had 3 computers, all WXP, + netgear router all working well with cable
connections. Computers all part of MSHOME workgroup. Got wifi router
and usb adaptors. I gave the wireless network a new name, NETGEAR100.
What I what to know is, is NETGEAR100 now a new workgroup name as
well? I can't seem to delete MSHOME. Is MSHOME still the name of the
workgroup? I'm confused!
If I ditch the wifi (because it's so flakey) and install homeplugs do
I need a new name for the new network? Do I use MSHOME for it? Can I
delete NETGEAR100?
(I've read all the manuals but they all seem to assume you are
starting afresh with nothing and you are installing a new network
where ther was nothing before!)

shorepot15 wrote:
> (newbie from UK)
> Had 3 computers, all WXP, + netgear router all working well with cable
> connections. Computers all part of MSHOME workgroup. Got wifi router
> and usb adaptors. I gave the wireless network a new name, NETGEAR100.
> What I what to know is, is NETGEAR100 now a new workgroup name as
> well?

No , your workgroup name used for file sharing between PCs is entirely
separate from the name of your wireless network. Netgear100 is the SSID of
your router and isn't in any way related.

> I can't seem to delete MSHOME. Is MSHOME still the name of the
> workgroup?

Yes.

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Alex

"I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away"

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> (newbie from UK)
> Had 3 computers, all WXP, + netgear router all working well with cable
> connections. Computers all part of MSHOME workgroup. Got wifi router
> and usb adaptors. I gave the wireless network a new name, NETGEAR100.
> What I what to know is, is NETGEAR100 now a new workgroup name as
> well?

No.

> I can't seem to delete MSHOME. Is MSHOME still the name of the
> workgroup? I'm confused!

Leave MSHOME as it is, or for some extra security change it to something
else. As long as it's the same on all machines it doesn't matter what it
is.

> If I ditch the wifi (because it's so flakey) and install homeplugs do
> I need a new name for the new network?

You're confusing physical network with workgroup. The two things are
quite separate. Leave the workgroup settings alone.

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Regards
Jon

Thanks both very much for your answers. Can I just ask you a bit
more?
Before I got the wifi and I just used cables I thought the workgroup
name and the network name were the same - MSHOME. Before I got the
wifi SSID would I have had another name to distinguish the physical
cabled network from the workgroup? I don't remember ever having to
choose another name to identify the physical network.
Thanks

shorepot15 wrote:
> Thanks both very much for your answers. Can I just ask you a bit
> more?
> Before I got the wifi and I just used cables I thought the workgroup
> name and the network name were the same - MSHOME. Before I got the
> wifi SSID would I have had another name to distinguish the physical
> cabled network from the workgroup? I don't remember ever having to
> choose another name to identify the physical network.

Wired networks don't have any name at all like wireless ones do with their
SSID.

The IP address range in use on them (eg 192.168.255.x) identifies them to a
certain extent but again that's an entirely separate concept to the
workgroup name

--
Alex

"I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away"

www.drzoidberg.co.uk www.ebayfaq.co.uk

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> Thanks both very much for your answers. Can I just ask you a bit
> more?
> Before I got the wifi and I just used cables I thought the workgroup
> name and the network name were the same - MSHOME. Before I got the
> wifi SSID would I have had another name to distinguish the physical
> cabled network from the workgroup? I don't remember ever having to
> choose another name to identify the physical network.

I think you might be confusing two different concepts.

The workgroup is the list of all the computers which are visible to each
other: a computer in workgroup FRED will see all other computers that are in
FRED. On a normal home network, it is usual to have all the computers in the
same workgroup, eg MSHOME.

The SSID (sometimes referred to the wireless network name) is a separate
concept. It allows you to distinguish the wireless network that your router
provides from the networks that your neighbours' routers may provide - it's
the equivalent of putting a sticky label on a piece of network cable to say
"this cable is plugged into my router; that cable over there is plugged into
my neighbour's router".

So you will configure your wireless PCs to connect to your network using the
SSID, but you will set the workgroup to the same value as for all your other
PCs (whether wired or wireless).

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> Thanks both very much for your answers. Can I just ask you a bit
> more?
> Before I got the wifi and I just used cables I thought the workgroup
> name and the network name were the same - MSHOME.

Wired networks don't have a "name".

> Before I got the
> wifi SSID would I have had another name to distinguish the physical
> cabled network from the workgroup?

No. The SSID and the workgroup are nothing to do with each other. It
really doesn't matter what they are, as long as the workgroup name is
the same on all PCs.

> I don't remember ever having to
> choose another name to identify the physical network.

That's because with a cabled network you don't have a name!
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Regards
Jon