Wireless connection issue

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cyberion1985 - Dec 19, 2009 at 12:53 PM
cyberion1985 Posts 1 Registration date Friday December 18, 2009 Status Member Last seen December 19, 2009 - Dec 19, 2009 at 04:28 PM
Hello,

I have a small office system at home:

A.) PC (XP) DHCP - Wired
B.) PC (W7) DHCP - Wired
C.) Laptop (XP) DHCP - Wired/Wireless
D.) Laptop (XP) ?????? - Wireless
E.) ADSL Router
F.) Switch

So all wired devices A,B,C,E connect to the Switch, so there's internet access on all of them.

Laptop "C" and Laptop "D" already have a working connection in the sense of Wireless going (Laptop to Laptop WPA AES with SSID etc).

Now I want to connect Laptop "D" wirelessly to Laptop "C" so that Laptop "D" also has internet access AND access shared resources on "C". I tried sharing the LAN connection on "C", then assigning static IP to "C" WLAN connection. But somehow I dont get the IP's, the gateway or the DNS address right on both "C" and "D" to make this work. I used 192.168.0.1 on my WLAN "C" connection as IP.

Any ideas and solutions are very welcome ; including gateway IP suggestions and so on.
If it might help, my LAN wired connection is 192.168.1.xx with the ADSL router being 192.168.1.1 and as i've said before i set laptop "C" on static to 192.168.0.1.
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cyberion1985 Posts 1 Registration date Friday December 18, 2009 Status Member Last seen December 19, 2009
Dec 19, 2009 at 04:28 PM
Solved this issue on my own after hours of suffering. The issue was not the IP configurations, all settings were correct :

gateway settings;
"D" -> 192.168.0.1 "C" (WLAN IP of "C") "D WLAN" with automatic IP 192.168.0.xx
"C" -> 192.168.1.4 "C" (LAN IP of "C") "C WLAN" with static IP 192.168.0.1 , "C LAN" with DHCP 192.168.1.4
"C" -> 192.168.1.1 "E" (LAN IP of "E") "C LAN" with DHCP

I could ping various sites through "D" but could never have any HTTP connection in a browser so the issue was resolved by changing the WPA setting on the Wireless setting to WEP with network key. Re-creating that with WEP instead of WPA on Laptop "C", then connecting to it with Laptop "D" gave instant internet access with settings mentioned above.

But anyway, thanks for helping :D
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