Printable View
hi, i have bought two pci wireless nic and two usb wireless nic and i can get them to say they are connected but when i go to \\computer1 or \\169.254.blah.blah i can not view the file shares or get any network activity exsept from the little wireless icon saying it is connected.
Are you connecting the PC's via an access point or directly?
I you are connecting them directly you need to give them both different IP addresses in the same subnet. e.g: 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2
i have put all the wireless computers into a windows workgroup and the network and connect into file shares on each other and the wired computers are in a windows domain so that bit is kind of resolved but what i want to do is get the wireless computers into the windows domain for domain logons. is this a bit over the top for a 11Mbps wlan? i am still trying to get it to work but i have just got what i have been doing wrong. i did not set up the network properly.
they are all peer-to-peer.
You should be able to access the wired network by entering the IP address of a machine. If there isn't a guest account, you will get a network logon box, and if you have an account, you should be able to log on. Once you log on, the issue should be solved.
You are contradicting yourself. If the computers are part of a Windows domain, this implies that they are not peer to peer and also, that your domain controller acts as a DHCP server.Quote:
Originally Posted by dandono
How is your network setup?
Do you have a DHCP server or do you enter all the IP addresses manually?
What is the problem exactly?
It is OK to have PC's conntect to a domain controller via an 11mbps connection, but it is worth noting that even without WEP enabled you are going to get transfer speeds at best, at 60% of this speed, which equates to less than 1Mb/per second.
This mad me get thinking... i have a 54Mbps network wired to wirless at home... the thing is i get share activity of only 500kbps MAX...But that is coming from an apache server i setup on one PC to get the network to be able to share files, because it doesn't seem to work peer-to-peer or in any other mode, lolQuote:
Originally Posted by visualAd
I don't know about you, but I have a W2K Workstation plugged into a wireless router, and when I xfer files, it's faster than 1mb/sec! 802.11b - 11mb/sec
That is megabit, though.
As I understand the closer you are to the wireless access point the higher the bandwidth. In any case the maximum transfer rate in megabytes will never be greater than the maximum transfer rate in bits divided by 8. So:Quote:
Originally Posted by thegreatone
11mbps = 1.375Mb/s
54mbps = 6.75Mb/s
These are the maximum rates though and you are rarely going to reach those speeds, as you have just pointed out with your. As a quick test I downloaded a file via Apache over my 100mb wired LAN and achieved the following transfer rates:
That's only 20% of the actual bandwidth :eek: There are a lot of metrics which should be taken into account, such as the time it takes Apache to open the file and transfer it, the quality of the wire and the cards.Code:File size: 506Mb
Download time: 182 seconds
Transfer rate Mb/s: 2.78
Transfer rate mbps: 22.24
The main limiting factor with wireless are the distances between the two transfer points and any physical barriers such as walls, and electromagnetic interference such as microwaves and mobile phones.
I have a wireless network with out a router and i have a wired network which has a windows server 2003 enterprise edition which has all the wired connections bridged. i have one workstation which has a wireless nic (usb 802.11b) and a wired nic. what i would like to do is connect the wireless computers into a domain on the wired network but through one or more network bridges. i do not get a logon dialog but all i get is no network provider accepted the given path. i can get the wireless computers to work with file sharing and the wired networks work with file sharing as well but the trouble is when i get both networks to work with each other (wireless pc on network share on a wired pc and vice-versa).
thanks, dandono
what is happening is that i can not join any of the wireless computers into the domain in the first place. the computers in the domain are all 192.168.0.blah ip addresses and the wireless computers are 168.254.blah.blah. does this make any difference. i have a workgroup for the wireless computers to comunicate (WLAN) and a domain which i would like the wireless computers to be in insted of the workgroup (Netbios: LOGON Domain Name: DDODN.NET) when i try to get the wireless computers to join the domain it comes up with an error about dns servers and all but there is nothing wrong with the servers. i have a wireless and wired adaptor in one of the workgroups in the domain and all the computers with one wireless adaptor exsept the workstation are in a workgroup. i can not get it to connect. the computers with wireless adaptors (inc workstation) can view shares but the workstations with out a wireless adaptors can not view shares on wireless adaptors. i dont know if the wireless adaptor works properly when i set up a windows xp bridge but when i do it gets stuck on the aquiring network address bit.i can not view any of the servers on the domain from a wireless workstation. i can not get the network to be wireless-to-wired. do i need a router? can it be done with out a router? i can not get the wireless computers to go through the wired network to the proxy server neither.
All the computers on your LAN need to be in the same subnet. Pus simply if you are using 192.168.0.1 for one of your PC's then all the others should have IP addresses like 192.168.0.x. Where x is a number between 1 and 254.
If you give different PC's IP addresses which are not in the same subnet, you would need to use a router, to route the IP packets across the subnet boundary.