I was wondering if you can help me. I live a few hundred yards away from my brother-in-law and we want to be able to connect our wireless lans together. I have a wireless gaming adapter connected to my LAN which is capable of picking up and connecting to his wireless network. How do i go about getting the networks to talk to each other.
My network is using 192.168.0.x and his is using 192.168.1.x
We aren't worried about sharing each others Internet connection, as that is just the default gateway, we just want each others pc's to be able to communicate.
Any ideas?
2007-05-05 08:27:06 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Most wireless gaming adapters are actually a wireless bridge. Check and see if yours is. If it is you can place another one on your brother-in-laws network you will beable to connect the two bridges together and this will let you two networks act as one large one.
2007-05-05 14:48:28 · answer #1 · answered by Taba 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'd need one of the wifi devices to act as a bridge to the other wifie device. If you both have internet access and wireless routers, this is going to be a problem and one of you will need to buy a Wireless Access Point and configure it to act as a bridge to the other wireless network.
If you both have internet access already, you might want to investigate VPN solutions over the internet instead of trying to link over wireless. The VPN connection will be MUCH more reliable.
Good luck,
Annorax64
2007-05-05 16:46:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
First if you both have routers : You are in 2 different subnets. You would need to change the router IP address on 1 or other machines, then set different dhcp ranges to avoid conflict, and they would need to share the same channel and encryption. A single subnet is essential.
If only he has the router you could buy a range extender, set this up as near to his router as possible, then set them to communicate by mac addresses. This is much simpler to implement.
2007-05-05 15:58:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Havent tried this, but had thought about it a while back, if his router has this option, set his one up as a repeater, so your wireless will now spill over to his router, his router picks up the connection and just carrys the network, so now his router will have the same IP subnet as yours, and bond as part of your network
2007-05-05 16:03:49 · answer #4 · answered by Cupcake 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋