CREATING AN AD HOC WIRELESS NETWORK ON THE HOST COMPUTER

CREATING AN AD HOC WIRELESS NETWORK ON THE HOST COMPUTER

To create an ad hoc wireless network to share Internet access with the other WLAN computers on a computer running Windows XP, do the following:

1. From the Windows XP desktop, click Start, click Control Panel, click Network and Internet Connections , and then click Network Connections.

2. Right-click the wireless network connection, and then click Properties.

3. Click the Wireless Networks tab.

4. In the wireless network adapter properties dialog box, click Add under Preferred networks.

5. On the Association tab, type the name of your ad hoc wireless network in Network name (SSID). For example, you could name your wireless network AdHoc Internet.

6. Select the This is a computer-to- computer (ad hoc) network check box and clear the The key is provided for me automatically check box.

7. In Network Authentication, select Open.

8. In Data encryption, select WEP.

9. In Network key, type the WEP key. The WEP key should be a random sequence of hexadecimal digits or numbers, letters, and punctuation.

10.In Confirm network key, retype the WEP key.

11.Click OK to save changes to the wireless network.

12.Click OK to save changes to the wireless network adapter. These instructions configure an encryption key for wireless communications on the ad hoc wireless network. You must tell the other users who want to access the Internet the WEP key. You can create an ad hoc wireless network without requiring encryption and an encryption key, but it is not recommended.