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ICS on a vista laptop with a cellular card modem

Sep 8, 2010 11:34AM PDT

Here is some more info. laptop uses a cellular type card to connect to the internet. It also has wireless capabilities. I wanted to use this wireless card as and adhoc network. I wanted to have the laptop share its internet through the wirelss card and with her sons 7" netbook that has wireless capabilities. So i wanted to use their wireless connections to share the internet. The netbook sees the laptop ok but is not allowed to access the internet. Any suggestions. Thanks in advance. Take care everyone

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The lesson about ICS is
Sep 8, 2010 11:57PM PDT

That it's finicky. In fact to avoid the tar pit that ICS I no longer write about it but write about routers.

IN YOUR CASE a special router is needed. Google this -> 3G ROUTER.
Bob

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(NT) thanks for this info
Sep 9, 2010 8:33AM PDT
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One more little note for you Mr. Proffit
Sep 9, 2010 12:28PM PDT

I went over to the owners home and returned her laptop and netbook. I also found out she uses verizon dsl. It had a router but the netbook still cant access the internet. I am looking to see if i can find the settings for the wep in this os to no avail. But like i said earlier thanks for all your help in advance. I will have to do so more research on this os. Thanks again for all your help. Good Day

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About the netbook no access.
Sep 9, 2010 1:18PM PDT

Given so little detail I can only offer a few ideas.

Try:

1. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811259

2. If it has Norton, when Norton expires, very strange things happen.

3. The Cnet Networking forum suggests broadcasting the SSID, WPA and router defaults. That's what I use. WEP is far too easy for others to interfere with or get the password wrong yet it won't tell you it was wrong. It will just not work.
Bob