- Jul 8, 2005
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It is so frustrating how you'll get something to work, you change NOTHING, and suddenly it stops working.
At first I tried it over an ad hoc wifi connection between the two computers. Worked great for like two days. Then that started to fail: the guest laptop's Local Area Connection would show Connected to the host laptop's ad hoc network, but not to the shared dialup connection.
Then we tried it with CAT5 between them (not a proper crossover cable but it worked). Bingo--back online. Then after a day, nothing. Why is it so inconsistent, and is there anything I can do to just make it work, preferably over wifi?
The host PC is running XP Pro and has a wireless data card. This dialup connection is shared via the ICS option in the Advanced tab of its Properties dialog. The guest PC is also running XP Pro.
The data card assigns a static IP and subnet to the host PC's "Home networking connection" designated in the aforementioned Properties dialog. On the guest PC, I've tried it a few different ways: let it obtain an IP address automatically; manually assigned an IP in the same subnet as host, but no gateway or DNS; same, plus host PC's IP as gateway; same, plus host's IP as gateway and DNS. ALL have worked at one point or another; now nothing does.
At first I tried it over an ad hoc wifi connection between the two computers. Worked great for like two days. Then that started to fail: the guest laptop's Local Area Connection would show Connected to the host laptop's ad hoc network, but not to the shared dialup connection.
Then we tried it with CAT5 between them (not a proper crossover cable but it worked). Bingo--back online. Then after a day, nothing. Why is it so inconsistent, and is there anything I can do to just make it work, preferably over wifi?
The host PC is running XP Pro and has a wireless data card. This dialup connection is shared via the ICS option in the Advanced tab of its Properties dialog. The guest PC is also running XP Pro.
The data card assigns a static IP and subnet to the host PC's "Home networking connection" designated in the aforementioned Properties dialog. On the guest PC, I've tried it a few different ways: let it obtain an IP address automatically; manually assigned an IP in the same subnet as host, but no gateway or DNS; same, plus host PC's IP as gateway; same, plus host's IP as gateway and DNS. ALL have worked at one point or another; now nothing does.