please help set up ad-hoc network?

Question

i have a wireless data card, which i want to share with my neighbours. i tried setting up a router-free connection. Ad-hoc connection works, we all have different ip addresses, connection which i use for internet is also shared. i tried it with and without using http proxy (192.168.1.2 port 80). then system indicates on other computers, that only connection to LAN exists, while I have internet available.

what should i do? please help.

Answer 1

Here is Microsofts step by step information
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/bowman_02april08.mspx
and
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/setup/adhoc.mspx

You have to enable Internet Connection sharing on the machine that is connected to the internet. It basically becomes the "Router" for the AD-HOC users.

If you already have sharing enabled then you missed a step which "bridges" the internet to the ad-hoc system. You don't use proxy at all nor do you need to worry about ports etc.
You do have to set the internet connected computer as the gateway.. If you read the above article you should be good to go.