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

    David,

    This might help: http://www.ezlan.net/Distance.html

    I don't think you can get the park router's MAC address without asking
    directly, but I don't think you'll need it with all setups.

    - Les

    On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:50 AM, David <daveyjo@yahoo.com> wrote:

    > **
    >
    >
    > 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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