Sharing printer wirelessly with no router??

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Our community installed wi-fi, so I have independent wireless internet
access from my 3 in-home computers (2-XPPro & 1-Win98SE) without
having a router of any kind installed. I have a laser printer I would
like to attach to one of those computers and share wirelessly (and
securely) with the other 2 computers via a semi home network (no file
sharing). Given the lack of a router, is that possible without adding
hardware, and without jumping back and forth between an Infrastructure
network access profile and a Home network ad-hoc profile? If so,
where should I go to get educated on how to set that up?
 
'Teflon' wrote:
| Our community installed wi-fi, so I have independent wireless internet
| access from my 3 in-home computers (2-XPPro & 1-Win98SE) without
| having a router of any kind installed. I have a laser printer I would
| like to attach to one of those computers and share wirelessly (and
| securely) with the other 2 computers via a semi home network (no file
| sharing). Given the lack of a router, is that possible without adding
| hardware, and without jumping back and forth between an Infrastructure
| network access profile and a Home network ad-hoc profile? If so,
| where should I go to get educated on how to set that up?
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You need a router; you certainly don't want to use the community wireless
bandwidth. You will also need devices that match the new router for each
computer and the printer. This private network can either be Wi-Fi or
Ethernet; you then need only one point of connection to the community
wireless network.

For your situation, community wireless service you NEED a router for
security. Otherwise you are completly open to hacking. A router with NAT
is a very good security device.

Very likely you can get the best advice from the wireless service; they
know how their system works, and will ask for more information about what
you wish to do. But basically they too will recommend a router with NAT and
only one point of connection to the community network. (They will ask for
additional information, such as do you have any notebooks on the system?)

Phil Weldon

| Our community installed wi-fi, so I have independent wireless internet
| access from my 3 in-home computers (2-XPPro & 1-Win98SE) without
| having a router of any kind installed. I have a laser printer I would
| like to attach to one of those computers and share wirelessly (and
| securely) with the other 2 computers via a semi home network (no file
| sharing). Given the lack of a router, is that possible without adding
| hardware, and without jumping back and forth between an Infrastructure
| network access profile and a Home network ad-hoc profile? If so,
| where should I go to get educated on how to set that up?
|
 
Adding to Phil comment, when you buy your router, be sure it has support for
WEPT, WPAT, and WPA2T standards ensure that you will be able to use the best
possible encryption regardless of your client devices.
 
Adding to Phil comment, when you buy your router, be sure it has support for
WEPT, WPAT, and WPA2T standards ensure that you will be able to use the best
possible encryption regardless of your client devices."Phil Weldon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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I'm obviously missing something here. Since the entire community is a
wi-fi hot-spot, there's nothing physical coming into my house. The
physical wi-fi access points are boxes hung on utility poles about the
community. All of my PC's are laptops with built-in Intel Centrino wi-
fi connectivity, so they each can connect wirelessly to the Internet
via the common community wi-fi..

Now, if I buy a router, what do I connect it to, OR, what do I connect
to it? Do I have to route all Internet connectivity thru just one of
the PC's?
 
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