WiFi setup assistance needed

Hi, I am completely new to wireless. I have just bought a Dell
TrueMobile Wireless 1450 802.11gba WLAN Mini PCI in my Inspiron 8500
notebook. I downloaded and installed the driver and through trial and
error I have it talking to another HP notebook using the ad hoc setting.
Both notebooks are running Win XP Pro.

The little green indicator in the status bar on both notebooks report
the signal strength as excellent. There is also another icon in the
system trays showing the health of the WLAN connection. Both report a
large number of packets sent but none received. Is this normal?

What I really want to do is copy some files between computers. I guess
this is done by file sharing but I haven't a clue as to how to go about
this. How do I move files between the two computers now that I have
established some type of relationship between them?

Thanks,

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Pete

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Pete wrote:
> Hi, I am completely new to wireless. I have just bought a Dell
> TrueMobile Wireless 1450 802.11gba WLAN Mini PCI in my Inspiron 8500
> notebook. I downloaded and installed the driver and through trial and
> error I have it talking to another HP notebook using the ad hoc setting.
> Both notebooks are running Win XP Pro.

AD-Hoc wireless and XP is flaky to say the least about it.
>
> The little green indicator in the status bar on both notebooks report
> the signal strength as excellent. There is also another icon in the
> system trays showing the health of the WLAN connection. Both report a
> large number of packets sent but none received. Is this normal?

No it's not normal. If packets are being sent to another machine, then
packets should be received from the other machine.

>
> What I really want to do is copy some files between computers. I guess
> this is done by file sharing but I haven't a clue as to how to go about
> this. How do I move files between the two computers now that I have
> established some type of relationship between them?

You should make it easy on your self and get a wire/wireless AP router
and use infrastructure mode.

You may want to look at this XP Pro or Home it cannot be that much or no
difference.

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/j_helmig/guidshrh.htm

If all else fails use wire. You might be able to apply it to AD-Hoc
wireless too XP Pro or Home it cannot be that much or no difference.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814987/en-us

Duane