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Charles Tomaras
I need some help or a link to some sort of plain English instructions to get
me computers networked.
Here's my internet flow and situation:
Cable Modem connects to Linksys Wireless 4 port router in an equipment area
of my house nowhere near my main desktop.
Main desktop computer runs Windows XP Pro and is hard wired with Ethernet to
the router and accesses the internet without any problems.
Laptop runs Window ME and is Wi-Fi and accesses the internet with no
problems. (It's a Fujitsu Loox LX2 with a slow Crusoe processor and limited
to 128mb of ram max so it won't run Win2K or XP fast enough to be worth
it...I'm stuck with WinME)
I've tried running the network setup wizard in XP but it discourages me from
sharing the internet directly and even when I try it, it encounters an error
at the very end and does not set up the network. After running it a couple
of different ways I now have an Internet Gateway section that contains an
unnamed internet connection which I can disable but cannot delete. This was
not here before running the wizard.
Anyway...I don't know how to proceed from here. I'm fearful if I install a
hardware gateway I will lose my tenuous MSN Messenger video and voice
capabilities that are so mysterious with my UPnP enabled router. Should I
just set it up as a VPN? I really don't need to communicate all that much
between the two computers but it seems I should have the ability to network
them. Currently I just use two different Messenger accounts and send files
between the two of them via the internet even though we are sharing the same
router.
Can anyone give me some direction here?
Thanks!
Charles Tomaras
Seattle, WA
me computers networked.
Here's my internet flow and situation:
Cable Modem connects to Linksys Wireless 4 port router in an equipment area
of my house nowhere near my main desktop.
Main desktop computer runs Windows XP Pro and is hard wired with Ethernet to
the router and accesses the internet without any problems.
Laptop runs Window ME and is Wi-Fi and accesses the internet with no
problems. (It's a Fujitsu Loox LX2 with a slow Crusoe processor and limited
to 128mb of ram max so it won't run Win2K or XP fast enough to be worth
it...I'm stuck with WinME)
I've tried running the network setup wizard in XP but it discourages me from
sharing the internet directly and even when I try it, it encounters an error
at the very end and does not set up the network. After running it a couple
of different ways I now have an Internet Gateway section that contains an
unnamed internet connection which I can disable but cannot delete. This was
not here before running the wizard.
Anyway...I don't know how to proceed from here. I'm fearful if I install a
hardware gateway I will lose my tenuous MSN Messenger video and voice
capabilities that are so mysterious with my UPnP enabled router. Should I
just set it up as a VPN? I really don't need to communicate all that much
between the two computers but it seems I should have the ability to network
them. Currently I just use two different Messenger accounts and send files
between the two of them via the internet even though we are sharing the same
router.
Can anyone give me some direction here?
Thanks!
Charles Tomaras
Seattle, WA