I have no clue on how to do this, so any help would be appreciated. I don’t have any routers or anything like that, just the Laptops. Also is it possible to set up LAN between three or four laptops at once?
Thanks in advance.
If you want to connect the wireless you have to set up an adhoc connections. If you want to connect them by wire you have to buy a switch.
How to set up a wireless LAN between two laptops?
How can I set up my wiress LAN?
I have a laptop and want to connect to another laptop. Both have wireless access to the internet, but for some reason can’t seem to sort out getting a LAN connection to each other, or a direct connection to each other.
The LAN has never worked, the error message says a network cable is unplugged.
Is it possible to set up a direct connection without infrared between the two laptops? If so, how?
i’ve changed the workgroup names on both computers to MSHOME but still can’t see both Laptops
You can connect using the wireless router that both laptops use.
You must ensure that both computers are using the same network name.
The default name for Windows is either WORKGROUP or MSHOME.
Check both computers by:
Start >> Control Panel >> Performance and Maintenance .. now click the SYSTEM icon.
In this window click the “Computer Name” tab at the top.
In this window it’ll tell you the workgroup name for this computer.
Do the same check on the other computer to ensure it’s using the same workgroup name.
Then you open up the “Network Places” and you should see each others shared files.
November 22nd, 2009 at 11:41 pm
you can setup the notebook to be a server/client. But you need one of these devices connected to the internet.
So in example, one notebook WIRED directly to the internet, with wireless enabled can allow you to broadcast your connection to other notebooks.
as far as lan, yea samething as before, just not internet if no one them have internet access.
best thing is to just buy a wireless router, its like 50 bucks now. Get linksys on amazon.com
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November 23rd, 2009 at 12:03 am
If you want to connect the wireless you have to set up an adhoc connections. If you want to connect them by wire you have to buy a switch.
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November 23rd, 2009 at 12:19 am
Follow the procedure to set up wireless LAN between two laptops and njoy:
Asuming your OS is windows XP
First of all lets configure any one laptop, just any one,
Just double click the wireless network icon > then click over "change advanced settings" after this a "wireless network connection properties" window will appear. There click over "wireless networks" tab.
Now click over "Add" button. now type any name like "test" in the "Network Name (SSID) field. Next select Network authentication "OPEN" and data encryption "Disabled". Now at the bottom you will find a selection box "This is a computer to computer network(ad-hoc)network; wireless access points are not used. just select this box and press ok dont select anything else.
Now on the other laptop:(Note: you can connect more that one laptops. Follow the below procedure for all other laptops)
double click the wireless network icon, you will see other laptop "test", just double click it and you are connected buddy.
But remember one more thing, You must have assigned IP addresses to both of the laptops in the TCP/IP properties of wireless connection.
For any further queries, please revert back.
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