Two wireless adapters - will it work?

At the present time I have 2 PCs sharing my Broadband connection through a
long Cat5 UTP crossover cable. My modem is connected to the server machine
through a USB port. Apart from an occasional funny with XP ICS, it works
well and always has done.

What I am hoping to do is to install a wirelessG PCI card in the server, and
use a USB dongle adapter in the slave machine, making the server machine a
type of pseudo access point, as I may also have to host a wireless lap top
occasionally.

I know I could buy routers, access point boxes, hubs and the like, but that
costs lots of money.

Is this simple method I am looking at viable for a home installation and
will it work with standard XP software?

Any constructive advice would be welcome.

"Euclid" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> At the present time I have 2 PCs sharing my Broadband connection through a
> long Cat5 UTP crossover cable. My modem is connected to the server machine
> through a USB port. Apart from an occasional funny with XP ICS, it works
> well and always has done.
>
> What I am hoping to do is to install a wirelessG PCI card in the server,
> and
> use a USB dongle adapter in the slave machine, making the server machine a
> type of pseudo access point, as I may also have to host a wireless lap top
> occasionally.
>
> I know I could buy routers, access point boxes, hubs and the like, but
> that
> costs lots of money.
>
> Is this simple method I am looking at viable for a home installation and
> will it work with standard XP software?
>
> Any constructive advice would be welcome.
>
>

I'm not that up on it myself, but shlould work fine - I believe it's what is
known as an ad-hoc network.

Depends on how good the adapters are, whether you've walls in between,
distance etc.

Si.

In article <cmii48$6gr$(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed)
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> "Euclid" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> > What I am hoping to do is to install a wirelessG PCI card in the server,
> > and
> > use a USB dongle adapter in the slave machine, making the server machine a
> > type of pseudo access point, as I may also have to host a wireless lap top
> > occasionally.
> >
> > Is this simple method I am looking at viable for a home installation and
> > will it work with standard XP software?
> >
> > Any constructive advice would be welcome.
> >
>
> I'm not that up on it myself, but shlould work fine - I believe it's what is
> known as an ad-hoc network.
>
> Depends on how good the adapters are, whether you've walls in between,
> distance etc.

This is exactly what I do at home and at work - at both locations I have
a Windows XP machine running ICS, and my laptop running Windows 2000.
Works perfectly. Only thing to watch is the encryption side of things -
I have an AMD chipset for the laptop, and a USB SiS chipset for the
desktops - WEP doesn't seem to work on this mix, but apart from that
it's fine.

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