I want to help set up a wireless network for my lady friend who only
has dial-up internet access.

Her desktop computer is a Dell with Windows XP Home edition. She also
has a laptop from work which is an Apple. Her laptop is already
wireless ready and is used on a wireless network at work.

I have an older laptop running Win98SE with an 802.11b PCMCIA card.

What kind of hardware/software should I consider to allow both of us
to use our laptops on the wireless network in her home to connect to
the internet and exchange files to and from her desktop?

Thanks, Rudy

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"Rudy Lopez" <nimrod@nimrods.org> wrote in message
>
> What kind of hardware/software should I consider to allow both of us
> to use our laptops on the wireless network in her home to connect to
> the internet and exchange files to and from her desktop?

Lemme make sure I understand correctly.

You have two objectives:
a) both laptops connect to the internet via a wireless network
b) the computers need to be able to transfer files between each other over
the wireless network

You have a condition:
a) the user has dial up access

If the above is true, then your solution is:
a) purchase a wireless router/access point
b) add a network card to the desktop if it does not already have one, and
then connnect the wireless router to the network card
c) enable Internet Connection Sharing on the desktop (use google)
b) to share files over the network, you just need share folders that u would
like to make available on the network(google: "windows xp home" "network
shares")....for the win98 machine, I believe you need to install the xp
network pack or whatever by inserting an xp cd, (setup screen >> Perform
additional tasks >> set up network)

jjw

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Rudy Lopez wrote:

> I want to help set up a wireless network for my lady friend who only
> has dial-up internet access.
>
> Her desktop computer is a Dell with Windows XP Home edition. She also
> has a laptop from work which is an Apple. Her laptop is already
> wireless ready and is used on a wireless network at work.
>
> I have an older laptop running Win98SE with an 802.11b PCMCIA card.
>
> What kind of hardware/software should I consider to allow both of us
> to use our laptops on the wireless network in her home to connect to
> the internet and exchange files to and from her desktop?
>
> Thanks, Rudy
>
>
I don't know of any wireless routers that support dial-up. You could
create a mutli-homed router with a dial-up modem and a NIC card in the
PC that it acting as the server. Connect the second NIC to a Wireless
Access Point which would provide wireless connectivity to the other PCs
and laptops. I beleive the Belkin Wireless router can be setup as a WAP.
Buy a 802.11G wireless router if you can afford it.

You can try MS ICS to bridge the modem with the NIC. Sygate and Winproxy
ICS is probably a better choice.

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