stephen12
September 3rd, 2005, 01:14 AM
need some help setting up wireless network. my cuz and i want to play lan games. first of all i dont have dsl. my cuz got a laptop with wireless access. i have a nic on my pc, so i purchased a wireless router hooked it up. then i went to the control panel to setup the wireless netowrk and then after that i went through the network setup wizard. once done with everything it gave me a network key so i can add other pcs to the network. the home network setup instructed me to go to the other computer that is going to be on the network and put the xp cd in and do a home network setup there aslo. once i was done setting everything up on the laptop it showed the name of my computer and said the connection was excellent. on my computer it dosent show his pc name at all. i have file sharing turned on on both the laptop and pc, but i tried sharing files and it dosent show up. i am new to setting up a network so please bare with me. can anyone give me some advice on what i am doing wrong.