[Elecraft] Wireless network configuration (RE: Elecraft digest, Vol 4 #208 - 68 msgs)

[Kenworthy, Edward (EDS)]

"Julian (G4ILO)" <g4ilo@qsl.net> wrote

>>If you don't already have a network hub then, from the manuals, it appears

>>that it is possible for two computers to talk to one another using a pair 
>>of wireless network adapters, without the access point, but when I tried
it 
>>I couldn't figure out the TCP/IP configuration.

If you're going point to point then that's what's called an "ad hoc" network
(as opposed to an infrastructure network when using an access point). As
there is no central server (the wireless hub/access point) to hand out IP
addresses dynamically you have to do that by hand. Not difficult, just a set
of numbers you have to type in. The standard range to use is a subnet mask
of 255.255.255.0 and an IP address of the form 10.0.0.x for example 10.0.0.1
for your first machine, 10.0.0.2 for your second machine etc etc. How you do
that depends on your computer, for Windows machines you look at your network
connections properites (in control panel), select "Internet Protocol
(TCP/IP)" and edit it's properties. On Mac's it's even easier.

Edward