Wireless Networking W2K

[Pythagoras]

I have been playing around with this for about two days now. I guess where I'm stuck is what type of network do I have? Acces Point, Residential Gateway, or Peer to Peer Group? The way I have my network hooked up is My cable modem is connected to a Linksys broadband wireless router, then I have my desktop "Wired" to the router and in theory my notebook wirelessly connected to the router. Is there some setting in the router that I need to config? And WHat type of network is this?

Any help would be great, I've ben pulling my hair out for too long on this one!

[dglienna]

I believe that the Wireless Router is the Access Point that you connect to. I have the same thing. W2K Server is wired, and XP laptop is wireless.
I just upgraded to a G router, and things work nicely.

[nothingofvalue]

Should actually be a residential gateway. For you to run it as an access point, you have to actually tell the linsys router to do so. You would then have to specify a static ip address for the wireless device. Look in the router setup and you should see an option for this like "Use as access point."

The default for the router would be a gateway. More than likely you have a dynamic ip address so you would set your router to use dynamic dns. Your router will then assign an internal ip address to your notebook (like 192.168.2.12) that is permanent for LAN connection and obtain the dynamic ip address for WAN connection.

[dglienna]

I don't have any such choice on my D-Link router. It could be a Gateway, though. I said that I wasn't sure about it. I thought in Network Setup that it said something about a Wireless Access Point, but I'm not sure. I know that you can get an Access Point to extend the range of a router (or add users).

[nothingofvalue]

That is correct. The access point is essentially for extending service or somthing similar. You are essentially telling the router not to do any of the work like resolving ip addresses and instead you specify the ip address to the router. That is my understanding of it anyway, but I am by no means an expert.

[Pythagoras]

Ok here is where I'm at:

I've set up my laptop as a Peer to Peer network using Channel 6, which my linksys router is also set at. W2K says that my connection is connected. But I still cannot get on the internet or view files on the other machine?

Any solutions, ideas, thoughts?

Thanks, Tim

[dglienna]

I don't think you want Peer-to-Peer, but I'm not sure if that would cause the problem you're having.

I would think that you should check the firewall to make sure that it isn't blocking the wireless device.

Also, did you run the Wireless Networking Wizard? That has solved the problem a few times for me.

Also, WPA is a better encryption, and easier to use. Just supply the same passpharase to all devices, and they connect automatically with a different key each time.

[Pythagoras]

When I select anything other than peer to peer the os says the connection is not connected? Also is wireless networking wizard in w2k?

[dglienna]

I think you have to download an update for W2K. Peer to Peer requires a static IP address on each machine, and the router is probably trying to assign an address via DHCP. If you have the network card, I think if you wire it to the router, Windows Update should find the needed upgrades.

[Pythagoras]

Alright back to the basics:

I did some reading on the net and determined that I should be using the access point netwrok type. So I tried this to no aval? Through the orinco software I can scan for available wireless networks, but nothing shows up when I scan??? In my router configuration there is an option to enable "Broadcast SSID" so I did so. Well it still doesn't show up when I scan?? I'm just about at my wits end with this thing. Please help!!!!

I know it works on this machine, I've had it up and running on previous installs.