Networking Advice Needed

[CatchClaw]

I have an X5 and a win98se desktop and a winxp notebook with a compact flash card slot built in.

I am am looking at buying a wirless network hub/router for my home. I am hoping that I can plug a regular cat5 cable from the 10/100 card in my desktop to the hub, then purchase only 1 compact flash wireless network card that can be used either for my axim or my notebook to access the desktop via.

I plan to use winproxy on the desktop to share the internet connection (we were using it at work, but got satellite there so don't need any more) and access the host thru the wireless connection on the notebook & axim.

Is this feasible? Am I dreaming?

Would it also let me use the "beam" feature to beam documents back and forth instead of having to use activesync?

thanks,

[woochman]

If you are going to use a router, you don't need WinProxy to share the internet connection, unless, you are using dial-up internet service. If you are using DSL or Cable, the router will provide internet sharing using NAT( Network Address Translation)

Generally, a wireless router serves numerous purposes. It is a router, a switch, a firewall, and a Wireless Access Point.

Most wireless routers have 5 ports on the back. One is an uplink port into which you plug the cable from your modem and you can plug "wired" computers into the 4 remaining ports. Additionally, you can connect wirelessly. A wireless router is great when you have multiple internet capable devices.

Also, couldn't you use a PCMCIA ethernet adapter on your Winbook? That might be the way to, as you can get both wired and wireless cards rather inexpensively.

I use the D-Link DI-624 Wireless "G" router. There are others from Linksys and netgear.

Wooch

[woochman]

One last note, if I am reading correctly, you are planning on using Satellite for your internet connection.

Check with your Satellite provider for details before buying your router, and make sure that the router you plan to buy can be used for Satellite internet connections. Many of the mainstream products are for Cable/DSL, so make sure before you buy.

[CatchClaw]

thanks for the help. satellite is at work. system i want to put wireless network is dialup. since the desktop has win98se (I've never been able to get internet sharing to work on win98se), I thought to use winproxy to share it - we paid for it at work & are no longer using it there....

my notebook has a built in compact flash slot so i was hoping i could use the same card for it and the x5. it already has 10/100 port built in.

thus i might be like the puppet in the best buy commercial - setting up wherever my lil' heart desires with notebook or pda....

now the cool dream would be a tv tuner on my pc with tv streaming to it and accessing it from the bedroom on the pda via the wireless network. can it get any more geeky? one dream at a time.... for now ...

[Ohayden]

You can indeed use the same card for the notebook and PDA. I do it often. Does your notebook really have a CF slot or is it really a PCMCIA slot? The CF cards are much smaller in depth and a bit smaller in width. If it's a PCMCIA (like mine) then all you need is an PCMCIA to CF adapter. Then you can use the same WiFi CF card in both your notebook and you PDA. I do this all the time with an Ambicom WifI CF card.

[CatchClaw]

Yes. It's a Gateway Solo something or other - I've had it about a year. It has pcmcia and a compactflash and smartmedia card slots. Nice cause my camera uses compact flash as did my previous pda. One of the reasons I hurred and bought the X5 before they brought out the x3.

Thanks for the info....