setting up a wireless network

David david at kenpro.com.au
Tue Dec 13 00:05:04 UTC 2005


Haven't used lynksys, but it sounds pretty standard. My Netgear ones do 
all that.

On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 11:32:24PM +0100, Martin Ericsson wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> I have a desktop computer but will get a new laptop soon, so I want to 
> set up a local wireless network. My desktop makes a lot of noise, so I 
> figure I'll buy a router. But I don't really know what you can do with a 
> router.
> 
> This is what I want:
> 1. share the one static IP I get from my internet provider so I can 
> access internet from both computers.
> 
> 2. being able to access (at least) my desktop computer from the internet 
> so I can use it as a ssh/webb/whatever-server.
> 
> 3. share a folder on my desktop computer with the laptop (via nfs?)
> 
> 4. connect between the computers via ssh. I want the (local) 
> IP-addresses to be constant so I don't have to find out what the current 
> IP-addres for e.g. laptop is if i want to access it from the desktop.
> 
> Can I achieve this with a standard linksys wireless router?
> 
> Martin Ericsson
> 
> 
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