Wireless Daisychain?

I have a network problem I'm hoping someone can help me with.

I have a desktop that is connected to the internet through a wireless
adapter. The wireless router is on the other side of the house, fortunately
the wireless adapter on the desktop is strong enough to pick up the signal.

I also have a laptop in the room next to the desktop with wireless adapter
that can not pick up the signal from the wireless adapter because it is too
weak.

My question is: is it possible for desktop to act as an access point of some
sort for the laptop to connect to the internet? Both machines are running
Windows XP Professional, and the wireless router is connected to a broadband
DSL modem.

Any solutions would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

"Toan Le" <toanpublic-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:bHchf.80955$(E-Mail Removed). ..
>I have a network problem I'm hoping someone can help me with.
>
> I have a desktop that is connected to the internet through a wireless
> adapter. The wireless router is on the other side of the house,
> fortunately the wireless adapter on the desktop is strong enough to pick
> up the signal.
>
> I also have a laptop in the room next to the desktop with wireless adapter
> that can not pick up the signal from the wireless adapter because it is
> too weak.
>
> My question is: is it possible for desktop to act as an access point of
> some sort for the laptop to connect to the internet? Both machines are
> running Windows XP Professional, and the wireless router is connected to a
> broadband DSL modem.
>
> Any solutions would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

I did see something recently about Microsoft coming out with software for XP
to do exactly what you are referring to.
You might experiment with adding a 2nd wifi card in your desktop.
Or run a CAT5 from the desktop to the laptop and use ICS.
Or the cleanest solution is probably to just get an wireless access point.

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 04:37:11 -0500, Joseph Stewart wrote:

> "Toan Le" <toanpublic-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:bHchf.80955$(E-Mail Removed). ..
>>I have a network problem I'm hoping someone can help me with.
>>
>> I have a desktop that is connected to the internet through a wireless
>> adapter. The wireless router is on the other side of the house,
>> fortunately the wireless adapter on the desktop is strong enough to pick
>> up the signal.
>>
>> I also have a laptop in the room next to the desktop with wireless adapter
>> that can not pick up the signal from the wireless adapter because it is
>> too weak.
>>
>> My question is: is it possible for desktop to act as an access point of
>> some sort for the laptop to connect to the internet? Both machines are
>> running Windows XP Professional, and the wireless router is connected to a
>> broadband DSL modem.
>>
>> Any solutions would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
>
> I did see something recently about Microsoft coming out with software for XP
> to do exactly what you are referring to.
> You might experiment with adding a 2nd wifi card in your desktop.
> Or run a CAT5 from the desktop to the laptop and use ICS.
> Or the cleanest solution is probably to just get an wireless access point.

you could try running a second wifi card in your machine and put the card in
adhoc mode.. pick a different channel to the existing wifi (very different) and
then connect using the laptop in adhoc mode.

On the dual sifi card machine use windows bridging to connect the 2 networks.

Regards,

Doz

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 06:01:43 GMT, "Toan Le"
<toanpublic-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I have a desktop that is connected to the internet through a wireless
>adapter. The wireless router is on the other side of the house, fortunately
>the wireless adapter on the desktop is strong enough to pick up the signal.
>
>I also have a laptop in the room next to the desktop with wireless adapter
>that can not pick up the signal from the wireless adapter because it is too
>weak.

What is "too weak"? The laptop or the access point? If the desktop
can talk to the access point, then the laptop should be able to do the
same. If not, perhaps it would be more productive to fix the laptop?

>My question is: is it possible for desktop to act as an access point of some
>sort for the laptop to connect to the internet? Both machines are running
>Windows XP Professional, and the wireless router is connected to a broadband
>DSL modem.

Well, I think you're asking if you can simultaneously connect to an
access point and an Ad-Hoc client computer. Officially, no. It's one
mode at a time. Either Ad-Hoc, where everyone connects to everyone
else and there are is no access point, or infrastructure, where
everything goes through the central access point and there is no
connection directly between clients.

However, all is not lost. Microsoft to the rescue:
| http://research.microsoft.com/netres...s/virtualwifi/
| http://research.microsoft.com/netres...i/software.htm
which does exactly that. Be sure to create a "restore point" before
installing so that you can recover if anything goes wrong, goes wrong,
goes wrong...

>Any solutions would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

Solution: Fix the laptop or get a better external wireless card
(PCMCIA or USB)

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