Windows Forum

Ask something
Discussion Locked

sharing internet access

0 helpful
2 replies

by felixlai

Closed to new repliesThis discussion is closed. It stays readable, but it takes no new replies.

Can somebody please tell me how I can have two laptop computer each having an infrared port share a LAN internet connection which is availible to one laptop only?

Thanks!

2 replies

by bazz00

I am sorry but I don't understand why you would want to share an internet connection via IrDA. It isn't really suitable for this purpose.

Instead (if you don't want to add a network card into each of the laptops) you could connect the laptops (as long as they are no more than 5m apart) via a USB cable (USB v1.0 runs at 12mb and v2.0 runs at 600mb) or you could use a firewire cable which runs at 400mb.

Once the laptops are connected then run ICS - Interent connection Sharing (I think w98 - XP) on the machine connected to the internet which will run you through the necessary steps of sharing your connection.

Hope this helps.

by felixlai

sorry, the point is to do it without buying new stuff..one computer has only got IR port, no USB and no ethernet port

This discussion is closed to new replies.