Wireless reverts to "peer to peer"

[bob]

I have a Dell TM 2300 router and a laptop using the 1300 Wireless LAN card. I was getting good Internet sharing before I switched the router to my Win ME PC. I discover now that the laptop keeps losing Internet capability and when I hover on the Icon it will show 12 Mbps and a peer-to-peer connection
I am not sure why this happens but when it does I lose Internet sharing. I tried everything I can think of in the Wireless network configurations.

Any suggestions?

[brayan]

I don’t understand what’s the problem is. What do you mean when you say you switched the router to the "PC running win ME". How was everything connected before? You seem to imply you are running Internet Connection Sharing. Is this true? If so, you do not need Internet Connection Sharing with a router, and in fact it will mess things up, since there will be 2 DHCP servers on the network.

Please clarify how your network is set up so I we can help you.

[joe]

I switched my router from being connected to my XP machine to my machine running ME. Since then the laptop is losing Internet connection intermittently. If I hover on the wireless Icon in the system tray it will read "12 Mbps peer to peer" connection. At this point i can’t get the Internet to come up on the laptop.
I have unchecked "let Windows configure the connection" and I think that may have helped.
Right now the network is:

Dell 8100 Win ME wired to the 2300 router
Dell Dimension 4400 using a Net gear Wireless USB Adapter
i8500 laptop using a tm 1300 mini PCI card.

There seems to be a lot of different places to change settings for the wireless connection; kind of confusing. If you could explain what a peer-to-peer connection is that would help me considerably. Thanks for you help.

[Mel]

I've never seen the "peer to peer" message on any of my wireless connections, but a peer-to-peer connection usually just refers to a network connection between two computers.

Is there an icon for the wireless connection in your system tray?
When you hover over it with the mouse, is this the one that says "peer to peer"?
If you open Network Properties, is there is listing for the wireless connection?

If there is, double click on it. Then, Wireless Connection Status box comes up, click on the Properties button. Is TCP/IP listed on the opened window? Back in the Wireless Connection Status box, click on the Support tab.

Is the information listed there what you would expect from your router i.e. IP address in the range 192.168.xxx.xxx, subnet mask 255.255.255.0, Default Gateway 192.168.2.1?