Second Gateway

I've got a small home network via an adsl router.

My handheld has quite a poor signal range whereas the laptop is quite good.

Would I be able to use the laptop as a gateway for the handheld; I do have
two wifi connections that I could connect to the laptop so one could be peer
to peer and the other ad-hoc (One via PC card the other via USB).

Geoff Lane

"Geoff Lane" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I've got a small home network via an adsl router.
>
> My handheld has quite a poor signal range whereas the laptop is quite
good.
>
> Would I be able to use the laptop as a gateway for the handheld; I do have
> two wifi connections that I could connect to the laptop so one could be
peer
> to peer and the other ad-hoc (One via PC card the other via USB).
>
> Geoff Lane
>

Yes this is possible. You can put both cards in the laptop and create a
bridge between the two.

But.. what would this achieve? Access Points / routers have much better
range, so unless the handheld is much closer to the laptop than the router
you won't see much of a difference.


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----- Original Message -----
From: "George Hewitt" <(E-Mail Removed)>
Newsgroups: uk.comp.home-networking
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: Second Gateway


> > I've got a small home network via an adsl router.
> >
> > My handheld has quite a poor signal range whereas the laptop is quite
> > good.
> >
> > Would I be able to use the laptop as a gateway for the handheld; I do
> >have
> > two wifi connections that I could connect to the laptop so one could be
> >peer
> > to peer and the other ad-hoc (One via PC card the other via USB).

> Yes this is possible. You can put both cards in the laptop and create a
> bridge between the two.
>
> But.. what would this achieve? Access Points / routers have much better
> range, so unless the handheld is much closer to the laptop than the router
> you won't see much of a difference.

Yes, I was thinking of the handheld and laptop being in the same room.

The handheld seems to have a very weak signal if I am not in the same
room as the access point whereas the laptop seems ok two rooms away.

Geoff Lane