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I hope this isn't a duplicate. Tried to send this last night.
Background: Running a home network with following components: desktop with Win XP Pro, Ethernet connection to router; second desktop with Win XP Home, Ethernet connection to router; laptop with Win XP Home, wireless connection to WAP; WAP Ethernet connection to router. Internet sharing via cable modem hooked to router.
Objective: Connect another desktop with Win 2000 Pro via second wireless connection to WAP.
Grief: New member of group immediately connected to Internet, but via a neighbor's unprotected setup! Very weak signal. Managed to get this machine to connect to my WAP, and by fiddling with channels finally got a strong signal. However, cannot connect to Internet. Curiously, it worked one time and one time only via my WAP. All other attem
pts to hook up have failed.
Questions: Do I need to reinstall my entire network to add this computer? Seems unnecessary, as it was not in my neighbor's network. Is there a short cut to just add one new member to a network? I use MAC address filtering, and gave the WAP the new MAC address. Should I turn this off?
Any help appreciated as I'm at my wit's end (short journey). I'm no expert in this stuff!
Gordon Totty
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