is it possible to use my laptop as arouter for home network rather than purchasin a router????help plz?

Question

i have hp compaq presario v5000 with a built in Wlan the other laptop in my home network also have a built in Wlan .... i wanna connect my laptop directly to the dsl modem via a cable ....and then give a wireless internet connection to the other laptop makin my presario actin as a router ....is it possible??????i need help plzz it's urgent

Answer 1

no you need router this will help
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/moredone/wirelesssetup.mspx#step3

Answer 2

You might be able to use the XP laptop with Ethernet and wireless as the router, using Windows Internet Connection Sharing, to provide a network bridge between a wireless LAN and the broadband connection plugged into the Ethernet port.

Microsoft documentation on this is available (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/learnmore/ics.mspx), and there is another good tutorial (http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_ics/).

Enabling ICS on the Ethernet interface of the XP laptop will perform the role of a DHCP server for your wireless LAN, plus the router functions. Make sure your wireless access point is not configured to be a DHCP server. Follow the steps in the documentation to enable the network bridge, and power up the second laptop to test the connection.

Answer 3

It is possible to use a windows xp system as a router, but my suggestion would be to purchase a dedicated router. this is mainly because the router has a limited amount of settings that could be fouled up and compromise the router. If on your WinXP/router setup you shared your C drive and allowed anyone to see it through the firewall, for example, you'd expose your drive to the entire world. A dedicated router is usually security hardened and they aren't that expensive. Unless you plan to use a more robust OS on the laptop, I would suggest a dedicated router/firewall.

Answer 4

You cannot because, router is capable of communicating through various similiar networks.
So a Laptop cannot do the job of a router. But if you just want to use it for simple LAN without any access to WAN then you can? ie. only for file sharing between your computers and stuffs like that and no access to the internet.

Answer 5

Well to be honest no.. you would need a router or a hub, then you'd have to connect one of them via ethernet. thats the only way for a good clear stable connection you can set the one laptop as a direct client shair but you loose speed... Good luck

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Answer 6

You need a router, unless you have a wireless modem.
The wireless modem would transfer the signal to the laptop(s), if you don't have that, the wireless router would transfer the signal.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

you need 2 network cards but it can be done with the right configuring http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/archive/t-32822.html
good luck