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Please forgive this newbie question:
Two laptop computers, both running Windows XP Pro, both with PC card
wireless networking adapters. (Although one card is "B" (from D-Link), and
one card is "G" (from Netgear).)
Can these two computers, not in any standard network, connect to each other
via the wireless cards, without cables, to transfer files back and forth?
If so, how should I set the settings to get that result. I guess that would
be considered an "ad-hoc" network, no?, since there are no routers or
servers, etc. Besides setting "ad-hoc", what other settings would need to be
made?
Each of the cards comes with configuration software for setting the
settings. Since they are from different manufacturers, the software is
different for each card (although similar). I believe Win XP also comes with
wireless network configuration capability. Should I use the manufacturer's
configuration utilities to set the computers up to connect, or just use the
utility built into Win XP Pro?
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.
Please forgive this newbie question:
Two laptop computers, both running Windows XP Pro, both with PC card
wireless networking adapters. (Although one card is "B" (from D-Link), and
one card is "G" (from Netgear).)
Can these two computers, not in any standard network, connect to each other
via the wireless cards, without cables, to transfer files back and forth?
If so, how should I set the settings to get that result. I guess that would
be considered an "ad-hoc" network, no?, since there are no routers or
servers, etc. Besides setting "ad-hoc", what other settings would need to be
made?
Each of the cards comes with configuration software for setting the
settings. Since they are from different manufacturers, the software is
different for each card (although similar). I believe Win XP also comes with
wireless network configuration capability. Should I use the manufacturer's
configuration utilities to set the computers up to connect, or just use the
utility built into Win XP Pro?
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.