Wireless Access Point for PDA

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Here are a couple of ad-hoc guides for that may help...One talks about using a DHCP assigned IP
address on the PocketPC...

http://www.pc-counselor.com/ad-hoc.htm
http://www.geocities.com/grieg_winter/adhoc/index.html

Having never used ad-hoc (I use a Buffalo WBR-G54 4-port broadband router/wireless access point) the
best advice I can give is to purchase a suitable wireless access point or a combination broadband
router/wireless access point. One advantage would be WPA encryption versus WEP, which is easily
cracked.

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"bob" <bob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news668C4D3-A8D3-48C8-9DC9-BD6A93273AF5@microsoft.com...
>I have a DSL Router (cabled) that provides unfire walled access to the
> internet for several computers (they each have firewalls). I would like to
> stick a wireless lan card into one of the PC's (a PCI card) so that I can use
> my hx4700 PDA to access the internet "through" one of the PC's firewalls.
> How can I set up the PC to act as a wireless access point? I can sort of
> make it work if i set it up as an ad-hoc netowrk but I have to manually set
> the ip addresses.
> Can I make the PC allocate the ip address (and DNS) to the PDA like a proper
> access point?
> Cheers,
> B