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| Hello everyone...... Running an addon router into a 2.4mg P4 desktop (yes, old fashioned). machine has 1g 333DDR ram and an old P845cset..... Will be adding a laptop to this (Acer1654 - 2m Centrino) .... on it's way.. which has a wireless card built in..... Question is I can remember nowt about configuring it...... spent a glorious 3 hours on the phone with MS last summer and they gave me a lot of techie help when I was trying to run an old HP laptop through above machine... at the time I bought and still have an addon wireless card (to match the router).... Kids dropped said laptop on the side with card sticking out and managed to smash bits of the mobo ... hence me buying another laptop now. Can remember the ping command - but there was also one to identify the machine IP and others which controlled boot loaded s/ware - used the run command and then something like MSservices....... Got some info on DCHP and WEP as well. Can anyone help with a brief synopsis of the terminology?
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The Pigs of Uranus
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You shouldn't need to know all the networky bits.
To set the wireless connection up all you need to know is the WEP key.
Windows will detect any wlans in range, click on yours and put the WEP key in.
That's it (or should be).
The laptop will get an IP address from the router and off you go 
Dave R
XP Pro + various VMs: Q6600 @ stock, Asus V3-P5G33, 2GB DDR2 800, 7600GT
XP Pro: E1200 @2.4Ghz, GA-G33M-DS2R/S2, 2GB DDR2 800, 3450 on HDMI
Mandriva S 2008: SOA Athlon 2200, 1GB DDR, 9550
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| Hello Agree that XP seems to do it all and, in fact it did in the end solve the problem I was onto MS about. However when things go wrong pinging the network is, I think, of some value - it does tell you whether it is working or not and the IP address command that I am struggling to remember was useful in identifying the machine being used.... MS Services I am not so sure about other than it it stop boot items loading so that you could narrow down problem possibilities. Still interested if anyone out there has the info.
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Your best tool is ipconfig - which you run from the command line.
That tells you what your IP address is - but so does My Network places, My Connections if you select the network card.
ipconfig /all tells you a lot more.
tracert can be handy if you cannot access a paticular site.
It shows you all the hops the traffic goes to to reach it's destination.
You can then see where it's failing.
Dave R
XP Pro + various VMs: Q6600 @ stock, Asus V3-P5G33, 2GB DDR2 800, 7600GT
XP Pro: E1200 @2.4Ghz, GA-G33M-DS2R/S2, 2GB DDR2 800, 3450 on HDMI
Mandriva S 2008: SOA Athlon 2200, 1GB DDR, 9550
Windows Home Server: S3000, ASUS V2-M2V890, 512mb DDR2 667, 1TB
4GB USB Pendrive: Mandriva 2009 - my portable PC
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