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Posted by Leperous on Mon Jun 13th at 9:27am 2005

I've managed to get wireless working perfectly at my dad's house- ADSL modem plugged into Belkin Wireless-G router, and filesharing/internet connection works fine, the only problem are thick walls.

Problems seem to arise when you have to resort to Window's crappy internet connection sharing. We have a USB modem at home (so it can't plug into our router) so it has to go through one computer; fiddling around with IP addresses and all those TCP/IP settings has got it to work fine, but I can't seem to get file sharing working across them. I haven't ever had any of these problems with it automatically disconnecting from the network, and it's safe security wise if you set up a chunky password and limit the MAC addresses that can connect.

So basically, my advice would be to get a modem that plugs into a router (I would heartily recommend this one), then cable that into one computer and wireless to all the others. You can get funky little USB aerials for about ?25 too, if you don't want to bother with PCI cards.





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Posted by wil5on on Mon Jun 13th at 11:03am 2005

Filesharing is weird on winxp. I think to make it work properly, you need to set up user accounts, and you need the same account on each computer or something.


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Posted by Wild Card on Mon Jun 13th at 12:00pm 2005

I have no problem for file sharing. I just go D: drive propreties -> share this drive <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">

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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Jun 13th at 2:08pm 2005

I have never gotten file sharing to function with WinXp. but did when I had Win2000.

*shrugs*





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Posted by French Toast on Mon Jun 13th at 2:28pm 2005

Well, I've never had problems, but then again my dad has been doing almost everything since I got my own computer (6 or 7 years ago...I woulda been 7 or eight anyways, only in the last year or so have I managed to function completely independently and I don't have any problems with file sharing. Right click sharing and security and you're done.




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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Jun 13th at 2:46pm 2005

Dunno if its a port, if its the firewall, or what.. Like I said, I had the function with win2000, but cannot do it with winXP.. I am stumped. :/



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Posted by satchmo on Mon Jun 13th at 3:39pm 2005

Filesharing with my fiance's computer has never been a problem. We are working on wedding planning at the moment, and we just put the shared files in the "Shared Document" folder in the network. It works flawlessly.

The only requirement is that my computer has to be on, of course.




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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Jun 13th at 3:42pm 2005

The more I read, the less I like reading. Its looking like I did something wrong. :/

/me rechecks settings.. I have to ask though, everyone who has file sharing functioning does have WinXP and a router.. right?





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Posted by Wild Card on Mon Jun 13th at 6:13pm 2005

Yes Jon. I have a DSL modem, to a wireless router. To 2 computers via CAT5, and 2 more via 802.11b wireless.

Before this setup, I used a hub in uplink mode smiley Yea... I was a cheater.

I do agree getting computers to recognise each other on the same network is a bitch, but once they are, then it's dead easy to share stuff. Me, I have my entire D drive shared, mainly because all my music, flying pictures, movies, and documents are on it.

Jon, just let me know if you need help.




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Posted by French Toast on Mon Jun 13th at 6:37pm 2005

I find that I don't really share files much anymore anyways. My dad got me a 2gb flash drive, and I just use that to transfer what I need.

I do have problems sharing files between my computer (XP) and my moms (WinME).




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Posted by Loco on Mon Jun 13th at 9:47pm 2005

Well, a couple of network cards are coming this week for me to install. I'll let you know how I get on. Should be interesting - two machines running WinXP and one running 98SE and using USB wireless...



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Posted by ReNo on Fri Jun 17th at 10:59pm 2005

Just thought I'd chime in with whats happening. I bought a Netgear DG834G (v2) wireless modem/router, for the reasons that wireless router/modem combos are only marginally more expensive than their wired equivelants, and that the netgear seemed to have the best reviews and recommendations. It arrived this afternoon and was a breeze to set up with a wired connection to my family PC. I then set about plugging in my rather cheapy wireless-g PCI card to my computer, and after a little bit of initial worry (the provided software showed the network, but wouldn't let me join it! Thankfully Windows XP's built in wireless network browser WOULD let me join), things are going good. 100% signal strength, 100% link quality, low noise, and apparently a full 54mbps connection speed. I also found out one of my neighbours has a wireless network, but sadly they had enabled some sort of protection on it, so there wasn't any sneaky connection stealing to be done :P Yet to test out any gaming, but I managed to copy across a fair amount of mp3's at acceptable speeds, and browsing is just as quick as it is on a wired connection.

Obviously its early days, but first impressions are good. I'll keep you posted about any further developments <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by satchmo on Fri Jun 17th at 11:12pm 2005

I have Netgear router and PCI card receiver too, but I've never managed to get them talking. I have to resort to using a cheapo USB receiving adaptor. Isn't that ironic?

Perhaps like Crono said, desktop adaptors sometimes have poor signal reception.




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Posted by fraggard on Sat Jun 18th at 2:34am 2005

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I also found out one of my neighbours has a wireless network, but sadly they had enabled some sort of protection on it, so there wasn't any sneaky connection stealing to be done


That may not be too much trouble *cough*





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