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Originally Posted by guthmund
Why are you connected through her computer...?
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I'm connected to the router, that is connected to her computer
SBC feeds into the router we have a hardline from the router into her puter, and in my puter we have the USB wireless stick that connects us.
I'm not really connected to her computer except wirelessly through the router and USB pickup.
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Originally Posted by cyrnel
Pan, I'm assuming the wireless USB adapter (linksys -g wusb54gc) is installed on her system and provides the connection we see between her system and the router/Internet?
So you want to use Internet Connection Sharing to give you access to her Internet connection? It can work but, in geek-speak, ICS sucks. The most obvious disadvantage is that her system will need to be running for yours to get out. You'll also affect each others' performance. Eww. ICS is more appropriate for sharing dial-up connections.
Since you already own the router and your system has an Ethernet interface, you'd do better to get an Ethernet cable or another wireless adapter and connect your system directly to the Linksys.
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No the router is on her puter the USB stick is on mine.
Now did I run the USB reciever program through her puter? No, I didn't know I needed to. I basicly loaded the router into hers and the USB into mine, I thought that was all I needed to do.
The big reason we need the internet connection is for my classes (U of A is moving a lot of classes to the web esp. the addictions courses.)
I thought the USB stick was how my compter picked up the signal from the router and transfered the data into my puter.
This was what Best Buy told me was the best way to share an internet connection without having to have new lines and hardwires installed and running throughout the house (which LS would frown upon.)