I have recently put together a Local Area Connection of 3 PC's through a
Netgear router, which has both wireless and ethernet cable.
This means that I have 2 connections active at the same time on some of
the machines !
The wireless is not reliable, whereas the ethernet cable is very reliable.
For the wireless a card has to be installed on each machine. In my case I
have installed two wi-fi cards, a PCI one on the main PC and a plug in one
on a portable PC.
2 of my PCs have wireless built in (A and C). B has a USB Zoom adapter which
is the least user friendly of the 3, but it either works well or not at all.
The file transfer issue is solved (see other email), now printing is the
issue. That 300+MB file is still downloading from HP at about 1 bit per day
it seems. Sharing is deinitely applied to everything and firewalls suitable
set to allow sharing. It does seem to be a driver isue as there is an
obscure referemce to driver issues on HP's website.
It may just be for you that the wireless link is not always being
successful.
That's certainly the case - the Orange broadband is troublesome 4pm-6pm when
kids come home from school and swamp the network locally.
As well make any folders, as shared - these can be any folders that you
like, not just SharedDocs - that you wish as being shared folders.
SharedDocs and printing were all I wanted.
You also have to set up the printer as being a shared one, so that any
computer can access it. In effect it is like a separate driver that is
set up.
Done.
As far a different versions of Windows is concerned, you should be able to
using any version from WIN98SE onwards on the network.
I have called my home network "mchome".
The default is "mshome".
Well, as 2 were already called WORKGROUP I simply chnaged the MSHOME default
of computer C and it was spotted straight away, but that was far as it would
go originally. Seems to work now when I did it myself instead of relying on
the Orange CD.
Anyway, enough Windoze here for now...:-(
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Dilwyn Jones
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