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2 Questions re: ad-hoc wireless on XP

  • 02-03-2005 01:01PM
    #1
    bonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭


    Hey guys,

    I'm running an ad-hoc wireless network at home, and there's two things that are bugging the [email="cr@p"]cr@p[/email] outta me, but I can find nothing anywhere telling me much useful about them. I was hoping that someone here might be able to point me in the right direction....

    1) Despite having strong signal-strength reported, I get "Network found" and "connected" messages on both machines approximately every 3-5 minutes, regardless of signal-strength and so on. Any ideas why? Is there some reason they appear to be constantly renegotiating?

    2) Until I get the time and budget to set up a proper system, my broadband is being shared using the ugly, UGLY Internet Connection Sharing stuff in XP. However, about 75% of the time, the ICS machnine doesn't seem to route the internet stuff correctly. (Incidentally, the reconnection stuff in 1 above can cause this to start/stop working - apparently randomly. Sometimes it breaks/fixes it, sometimes it leaves it fixed/broken).

    For reference, one machine is running a Centrino chipset (the wireless is the 2200BG chipset), and the other is running a TrendNet TEW-424UB USB doohickey. The Centrino-based one I'm controlling using the PRONet software from Intel, while the machine with the TrendNet is set up with Windows Zero Configuration (because controlling it from the supplied software doesn't appear to work).

    Any help greatly appreciated....although I plan on getting a Zyxel Perstige 660HW in the near(ish) future and on setting up a proper wireless infrastructure which might solve all my problems anyway.


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