OK I have my desktop in my room with a wireless router connected, this is connected to the internet and connects via LAN to my desktop and via wireless to my laptop to provide the net. My flatmate has a new desktop and I have a spare wireless router, is it possible to connect the wireless router to his desktop and somehow bridge the two wireless routers so that he can get the net on his desktop? (im guessing they would bridge via the laptop which has a wireless adapter?). Any help would be great.
see if the second router has a 'range extender' or 'bridge' mode. If not it should work if the settings are the same and you disable DHCP on the second router.
There is an USB dongle for it, If 1 computer has internet, you can connect the other one to it, hooray, 2 computers with internet
thats adhoc networking and it requires the host computer to be on at all times. It is not a very good solution.
Well after fiddling for a while I pretty much just gave up. A dongle wouldnt be too bad since my PC is left on all the time as I use it as a media server for my laptop, problem with wireless is that its pretty slow when it comes to streaming movies and such from one PC to another. I think what I might do is just buy up some good length Ethernet cables and drill a few holes in walls to run then through the whole house. Also that way we can have a 4 PC LAN in the flat (there goes the homework out the window )
wireless slows down the more people you have on it, yes. Unless you have like 10mbit internet you won't notice a slowdown on wireless with 1-2 people.
