Recommendation from Roy. Rather than mess with the buggy ICS and AdHoc network support in Windows, just get this simple device that will may a wired connection into a wireless one.

This article purports to explain how to set up an ad hoc wireless network that can share a single wired internet connection.

Quoted: This article descibes how to configure computers running Windows XP to share an Internet connection using an ad hoc wireless network.

I'm having a bear of a time trying to set up Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) so that I can have one computer set up to my hotel's wired internet connection, and then share that internet connection via an ad-hoc Wifi connection to a second computer in our hotel room.

ICS is amazingly poorly documented, as well as seeming very difficult to set up a success ad-hoc wifi network.

- My wifi card seems to be using a 169.254.x.x address - but the documentation I've read said to expect it to expose 192.168.0.1.
- My shared WiFi connection does not expose a DHCP server - so clients are not getting an address or Gateway IP address from my machine.

And besides this, it's very common for Windows networking to just hang for minutes at a time and not return control to the calling user interface. There's just about no other piece of software I use that sucks as bad as windows networking.

We have a lot of WiFi hubs in our area - I need to download this to tell which channels are the least used - i think we're getting a lot of interference.

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This is pretty amazing technology. The Eye-Fi is a 2GB SD card, that you can use in any camera to store your digital pictures. BUT, it also has an integrated WiFi radio right on the card. The onboard computer will upload your pictures directly to your PC or to any of several online photo sharing sites (FlickR, Shutterfly, Facebook).

Quoted: The KeySpan USB 2.0 Server ($129) can connect to the network via an Ethernet or Wi-Fi connection and automatically senses the network's connectivity speed. The device has its own IP address, which is how remote computers on the network can access the devices connected to the KeySpan USB 2.0 Server.

Nice idea.

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Sumit claims that ClearWire already works while driving....WiMax is great for:

- Another broadband choice - drive competition.
- Transportable internet. Sumit has an airport WiFi plugged into his WiMax box, so he can setup and WiFi network anywhere he goes (coffee shops, external office, etc).
- Boats - I think WiMax would be great for boating around Puget Sound.
- Job Site - Construction sites could have internet access before all the facilities get set up.

Quoted: Analysts predict a strong IPO for Craig McCaw's latest venture, but revenues remain highly speculative. Will its mobile WiMAX push do the trick?.