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Problems setting up 2 systems running a IEEE802.11b Peer to Peer

  • 12-01-2002 02:56AM
    #1
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭


    I posted this to the Irishwan forums, might as well post it here too.
    Hiya doing.

    At the moment I am setting up a Peer to Peer network at home. I have 2 PC's with Wireless PC Cards at the moment and I will be adding another with a standard card linked to a Access Point as well.

    Anyway I have set up the 2 PC's with the PCI Wireless Cards. I have set up one as a Wingate Server and it allocates a IP to the other using DHCP all that is working fine. I can ping both machines.

    The problem is bandwidth very little information is getting through. It takes 4 minutes for a basic webpage to load. I cannot share and access either system because it says the network is not available, when I ping each IP I get 30%-50% timeouts. But on checking the Wireless PCI Card configuration utility it tells me that the signal is 100% between the cards.

    The Hardware is as follows

    System 1 - Running Wingate - AMD 1GHz, 512MB, 20Gb HDD with a
    Linksys WMP11 Wireless PCI Card and an external Zyxel Omni.net plus running W2K Pro (SP2) with a static IP Address

    System 2 - Dell PII 450, 384MB, 10GB with a Linksys Linksys WMP11 Wireless PCI Card running W2K Pro (SP2) getting an IP via Wingate DHCP

    Both are definately set to the same Workgroup name I have checked this several times now.

    There are 2 possibilities as far as I can see.

    1. Its a problem with the way I have configured W2K.

    2. One or both of the Card are causing a problem.

    I'd really appriciate any help with this, cheers.

    Gandalf.


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