BIG wm wifi question...
 

okay peoples... i have succesfully installed my wmwifi router, and it works like a charm... i wish i had it during basketball season where we were on long road trips, but now i can be prepared for next year...

i'm in college, and as alot of you know, college internet blocks alot content... so i dont hesitate to crank up my wifi router... but i also like to play Madden O8 online whenver i go home. i cant get play it online at school because all of the internet is wireless and even if i did find a way around it, i'm sure there would be a firewall...

so the question that i propose to all of you is... is there some way that i can send my internet connection from my computer to my Playstation... i've seen this somewhere, but i searched for it, and i think it got erased wit alot of other content that got erased.

can someone let me know what i can do so that my internet of my phone can get to my playstation 2, using my laptop as a middle man? if its possible, let me know, and i will try as soon as you chunk me advice, and help ya reputation out....

Re: BIG wm wifi question...
 

i do the same thing with a satellite receiver. All you need is a crossover cable. And then just use internet connection sharing.

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hmm... that sounds like it will work... i will try that in a few minutes, and let you know how it turns up...

thanx a million, bruh...

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Yeah you can use a PC as a gateway and share out your internet via crossover. As lame as it sounds I used to do that before the broadband days when my roommate and I wanted to share our dialup connection so he could play MUDs while I browsed the web. It was slow but it worked. I would imagine this would be better but latency might be a *****.

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alright... i tried to do it and it said that ma connection was failed... i set up a small home network... and for some reason, its not working...

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Your connection to which? If I'm not mistaken (it's been years since I did this) you have to set up your networking so that your PC acts as a gateway for other devices. Then of course you need a crossover cable which isn't the same as a regular ethernet cable (different pins).

Sorry if you already knew all that. I just haven't done it in a while but it was easy to share a dialup connection that way despite being slow. It's probably a matter of finding the right settings and possibly not depending on wizards to do it.

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hold up... a crossover cable is different that an ethernet cable?... what the hell, man....

so i have to put a crossover cable into my playstation 2?

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If you want to connect NIC to NIC, you need a crossover cable, The order of the little wires in the CAT5 cable is different on a crossover.

For ethernet it is,

green/white
green
orange/white
blue
blue/white
orange
brown/white
brown

and it is the same at both ends.

For crossover it is that order at one end and

orange/white
orange
green/white
blue
blue/white
green
brown/white
brown

Make enough of these stupid things and it will stick in your head too ;)

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thanks bro... but does one end have to go into my playstation?...

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its sayin that a LAN connection is already configured wit the IP address... so... what does that mean...

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Another option would be buying one of those wifi gateways that will give you an ethernet port to hook to. Hook it up to your computer via ethernet to configure it to connect to wmwifirouter, then hook the PS2/PS3/xbox/whatever up to it.

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hmm... sounds smart... but if i'ma get that, i might as well find a way to connect it thru ma school's internet... i was tryin last night for about 2 hours, and i got my playstation thru the test connect screen...

i'm not sure if yall have gotten online wit a playstation 2, but there is a DNAS connection screen... i ran ma connection from ma phone to ma computer, and from ma computer to ma playstation... it says that i cant establish a connection... any suggestions...

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have you tried WMWiFiRouter on your phone?

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Well I only know how to do it on "ma" computer. I don't know anything about the limitations of networking on a game console. I second blasphemous_prime's suggestion of wmwifirouter. If the PS can use a wifi connection, just fire up wmwifi on your phone and then have the PS connect to the wireless network it creates.

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i have yet to get wmrouter to work with a ps3, because it creates an ad-hoc network, the ps3 does not support ad-hoc, im hoping someone will be able to modify wmrouter to act like a acces point that would make things much better

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I do this exact same thing, and NO crossover cable is required.

Just setup the connection with the mogul as usual, using your WIFI connection on the laptop. THen, SHARE THAT CONNECTION with the WIRED ethernet connection. From there, just use a regular ethernet cable to SHARE the VIRTUAL DHCP connection that your COMPUTER will be producing to WHATEVER device you like,it will grab a DHCP from the computer and you'll be good to go.

I have done this with many devices, slingplayers, ps3, other computers, other routers, ethernet power jacks, they all work fine.