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Two wireless laptops (802.11b) not talking

  • 12-10-2003 12:19pm
    #1
    milltown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,618 ✭✭✭


    Two laptops, both wifi enabled, xp, on same essid in ad hoc mode, connected at 11mbps.
    They are both sending packets but not receiving them. Neither can ping the other.
    Any ideas what I'm missing here?


Comments

  • #2
    raphaelS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭raphaelS


    Same Channel?
    Are you using WEP?
    And are the cards same brand?

    Did you have fixed IPs or using DHCP?

    Do you have any "_" in your SSID, I have a D-link who doesn't like that...


  • #3
    peterd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 258 ✭✭peterd


    Does either have a firewall, e.g. Zone Alarm, installed? This could be blocking traffic, otherwise setting up an ad-hoc network on XP is straight-forward.


  • #4
    Nietzschean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,314 ✭✭✭Nietzschean


    Straight forward is going a bit overboard, well using 3com and a D-link card anyway, took a few hrs playing around with them to get them to eventually connect properly. Best advice i can give is just keep playing with the settings...............


  • #5
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    Originally posted by peterd
    Does either have a firewall, e.g. Zone Alarm, installed? This could be blocking traffic, otherwise setting up an ad-hoc network on XP is straight-forward.

    I agree - this caught me for a long time when I was setting up an ad-hoc connection. With the firewall off on both machines, it is very straight forward.

    Try turning off all options initially (e.g. WEP), set both of them to static IP addresses (e.g. 10.20.30.40 and 10.20.30.41) with the same netmask (e.g. 255.255.255.0) - this should work.

    Then start turning back on options to see where the connection breaks.


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