Having worked on this solidly for about 3 weeks, I finally have a 3 computer
network up and running WL AND the packet sharing function working properly
under WIN XP Professional.
Here are a few notes:
1. Success is dependent on your router and/or router settings. When I had
WL networking properly, but the computers could not find each other in the
packet window, I took the three computers to my daughter's place to run them
over CQWW. WL would not network at all. I could not break into her router,
but when I got home, networking was restored. There is some setting in some
routers that keeps networking from happening. Meanwhile, running Windows
Explorer at my daughter's place, I could file share, but WL would not link
on the "bad" router. I have no data how to fix this. The home router here
is a plain vanilla Linksys 802.11g model that's about 5 years old.
2. With file sharing working and WL networking properly, the fix to get
the packet part of WL to recognize the other computers was to enable
NewBIOS:
Start>control panel>network connections>click on Internet Protocol
(TCP/IP)>properties>advanced>WINS TAB>click on Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP.
Reboot.
3. The Windows Security Firewall can be on, If WL is listed as an
exception:
Control panel>windows firewall>exceptions. You should see W5XD WRITELOG in
the list with the box checked. If its not there, you can run with the
Windows Firewall off, or click "add program" and browse for WL and add it to
the exceptions list.
4. To avoid losing the network it's probably best to run static IP.
However, for other reasons I am running successfully under dynamic IP. To
avoid the router resetting IP addresses in the middle of a contest
(disaster) I set my router to renew IP addresses every 99999 seconds which
is about 70 days. Static IP is probably the way to go.
5. If you want to use the packet sharing function, ONE (ONLY) computer
should be set to telnet and logged onto a telnet server of your choice. The
rest of the computers need to have "local network" checked and the name of
the computer running telnet put in. A great alternative, that works even
when WL's packet program can't find the other computers, is to run the VE7CC
software as a packet front end. It is the way to go. Filtering spots is
made easy, and if you go to configuration>ports/logging program and click
the box enable telnet (port 7300) you will be all set. On that computer, WL
pkt/telnet should be set to 127.0.0.1 port 7300 and VE7CC will feed the WL
packet window. VE7CC also has a buffer that slows spot data to a reasonable
rate that won't choke the network or WL. On computers other than the one
running VE7CC, the WL packet program should be set to telnet, and the
address will be the IP address of the computer running VE7CC, port 7300. It
should look something like 192.168.1.1XX port 7300.
Your mileage may vary. If you can't bring up explorer and see the other
computers and file share with them - you must fix that first. Check they
are all in the same workgroup for starters.
I hope this helps. I can't help but note that all the other software here
works across the network without taking some of these steps and worked
straight away, not after three weeks of head scratching.
73,
Hal
N4GG
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