[MLB-WIRELESS] Run a PC as an access point?

[Ryan Abbenhuys]

You can't just put a normal wireless card into AP mode to act as an AP.

An Access Point and a wireless card is different things.
Most cost effective thing for you to do would be just to use 3 cards in AdHoc
mode.
Otherwise you'll need two cards for your notebooks, an Access Point, a network
card in your desktop, a crossover cable from your AP to your network card in
your desktop, blah blah blah


>ah - now I get it. And this is ad-hoc mode right?
>
>infrastrucutre mode is for talking to an access point?
>
>so in my example I would have my laptops in infrastructure mode, and the
>desktop in ad-hoc mode?
>
>Ben
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au
>[mailto:owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au]On Behalf Of Ryan Abbenhuys
>Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 9:36 AM
>To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
>Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Run a PC as an access point?
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>technically both laptops can't talk to the PC at the exact same
>millisecond.....but
>because it's so fast it of course appears they are talking to it at the same

>time.
>
>So you wouldn't have any problems with 10 computers talking at once let
>alone
>only 3.
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I was thinking of getting a wireless card for my desktop, and one for a
>>laptop, then running them in ad-hoc mode to give the laptop connectivity to

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>>the wired lan. But, when another laptop is on the scene, both laptopts cant

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>>talk to the desktop at the same time can they?
>>
>>So, do the wireless drivers typically let you make them act as an access
>>point, or do I need a hardware version of an AP? I'm running Win2K
>>
>>Ben
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