Re: [IBCP] How to tie two laptops and a printer together, + Verizon Am.Choice cellphone

Wednesday, December 14, 2011 | Mbah Wo
di 11:50 PM |

Well, here's an update. I was finally able to tie my two W7 laptops together with a crossover cable so they talk to each other. I have tried and untried all kinds of things but finally got it to work. Then I connected to the web via my Verizon Americas' Choice plan and Casio Cellphone, and shared my internet connection on the Verizon network connection. I could see computer 1 from computer 2 and vis-versa, and both could access the internet. Then I logged on to my extra DSL wireless modem that was not connected to DSL but to my printer, and was able to use my printer wirelessly. So I can do everything I want to do. The only thing better would be if I could do this without a crossover cable (i.e., wirelessly).

Since my router is password protected, I am presuming this network is secure. Anyone disagree?

I checked out Cradlepoint routers and the chat line person said he didn't think they would work with my Casio cell phone.

I did notice on my router that it has a "repeater" option for WIFI, but I have to enter the WIFI source MAC address to use it. Is there a way I could get it over the air? How can I get the MAC address of an RV park's wireless router so I could plug it in and use the repeater function? If I did get and use it, would my wireless router still be secure?

Dave Rudisell, it is interesting that my cell phone has to operate in USB modem mode before VZAM can find it. But that still doesn't make it a modem, does it?

Thanks for tolerating all the "sort of off topic" questions I have posted in this Internet By Cell Phone forum, and thanks for all the advice.

Dave J

--- In InternetByCellPhone@yahoogroups.com, "David E. Damouth" <damouth@...> wrote:
>
> Use Internet Connection sharing (built into Windows). See
> <http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Using-ICS-Internet-Connection-Sharing>
>
> For connecting another single computer, the crossover cable should
> work. For connecting more than more than one additional Ethernet
> device (e. g. printer and laptop), you'll also need an Ethernet Hub or
> Switch (for your purposes, the two are identical). A 5-port switch is
> under $30. A hub is a few bucks cheaper.
>
> Or if your printer has a USB port in addition to the Ethernet
> connection, just connect it via USB to one of the laptops and use the
> Printer Sharing feature of Windows to make it accessible to the other
> laptop over your ad hoc network.
>
> Or if both laptops have WiFi or Bluetooth, you might be able to
> configure them to talk to each other that way instead of via the
> crossover cable, then using the crossover cable for the printer to
> either of the laptops (and hence to the other one via printer sharing).
>
> On 12/10/2011 4:18 PM, David wrote:
> > I suppose I could still use a router to create a network in the MH and tie the 2 laptops and the printer together. However, that router wouldn't be connected to the net. I can connect one laptop to the net through my Casio cellphone, but I don't know how to make the other cellphone and the new printer/fax access the net through the laptop connected to the cell phone.
>
> --
>
> //Dave/
>
> www.damouth.org
>

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