I have internet connection through Cat CDMA. I am trying to set up an Ad Hoc network so my girlfriend can share my connection wirelessly. I set up the ad hoc and her computer sees it and connects without difficulty but she can not access the internet. Any ideas about what I am doing wrong? Both laptops using WinXP Pro.

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I have internet connection through Cat CDMA. I am trying to set up an Ad Hoc network so my girlfriend can share my connection wirelessly. I set up the ad hoc and her computer sees it and connects without difficulty but she can not access the internet. Any ideas about what I am doing wrong? Both laptops using WinXP Pro.

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I think you need to bridge your cdma connection and your wireless card - i'm on win 7 so not sure of the exact procedure on xp, but probably something like:

Start / control panel / network connections

then ctrl+click on your cdma connection and your wireless connection, or one way or another select them both then right click and then click 'bridge'

then set up the ad-hoc as you have already been doing and cross fingers

The exact instructions that worked for me were

i found an easy way to do this..

1. disable internet connection sharing

2. bridge your ethernet (in your case your CDMA not your ethernet) and wireless cards together

3. create an ad-hoc network on the wireless card

4. connect to the wireless ad-hoc network

5. test connection