Behaviour of Ad hoc Wireless Network in VISTA
Hi,
I am running VISTA on two machines which are using ad hoc wireless for communication.
I have followed following steps to establish a connection between these two machines
Steps:
- Created an ad wireless ad hoc network on mc1
- Connect ad hoc wireless network created by mc1 from mc2
- mc1 goes to sleep
- When mc1 comes out of sleep, Mc2 can not detect mc1
when Mc2 goes to sleep and when it comes out of sleep,it is able to detect the Mc1 who has created the wireless network.
Why the behaviour is so?
Regards
Sumeet
Thanks Jose,
but this behaviour I can see only when two people are in network.If one goes to sleep...(that is creator of network) and when he comes out of sleep,he is not connected with other guy.
While a person who has joined the network,if he goes to sleeep,he will be in network after coming out of sleep also.
In case of 3 members connected through ad hoc wireless,if creator of network goes to sleep other two joinees are still are in network.
It wud be great if you can tell me Why this random behaviour is?What is the exact cause of it?
Regards
Summet
From my experiece the following is the result of the sleep mode:
(1) Computer X & Y are using ad-hoc networking
(2) Computer X goes to sleep
(3) Computer Y detects it is the only computer on the network, and disconnects.
(4) Computer X comes back up and expects the ad-hoc network to be active, but since only 2 computers existed, it is alone on the ad-hoc network and itself disconnects.
I understand the annoyance and I'm trying to determine exactly what to do. Having it setup to auto-connect to an ad-hoc network is not recommended due to security risks (disconnect attack from a war-driver for instance).
I'm unable to locate anything that would allow one computer to act as a "hub" computer for the network (short of installing Windows 2003 server).
I had a similar situation:
My Vista laptop is connected via DSL to the internet. It is a wired DSL connection, no wireless router. This laptop is on all the time.
I have two XP laptops around the house that I want to connect wirelessly to the Vista laptop to share the DSL connection.
I set up an adhoc network.
This works fine as long as there are two laptops running. If both XP laptops are off or sleeping, and I turn one of them back on, the Ad-hoc network DOES NOT COME BACK ON. I have to go up to the Vista laptop and manually connect.
However, I found a way around this!
On the Vista machine, go to Control Panel, Manage Wireless Networks.
Delete the adhoc network.
Then Add a new network with the + sign.
then choose "manually create a network profile"
Fill in all the options, and select "Start this connection automatically" and Connect even if the network is not broadcasting"
This worked for my situation, maybe it will work in yours.
