Setting Up A wireless LAN for Gaming?

[=MBG= De Sniper]

How do I set one of these up for gaming? tell me what info you need to help me and Ill get it to ya ASAP.
Sniper

[GHoosdum]

You don't have any wired options at all? Wireless for gaming only works for very few machines or games that have very efficient network code.

[=MBG= De Sniper]

I can do it wired also I have both capabilities in my house but I cant get my wired or wireless to work for LAN gaming.

[Cyclonite]

Check firewall settings and the like. What operating systems?

[=MBG= De Sniper]

Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 and Windows XP Professional.
What do you mean firewall settings?

I have IOLO Firewall/Antivirus.

Add the other computer as a trusted member? Would I have to set the other computer up as a part of a network place?

[maxclark]

You should be able to have wireless LAN gaming, over where i am we do wireless LAN gaming by connecting to a computer-computer network which one of us creates...we also can do it through the internet, but our school blocks it, so we go for creating a computer-computer network...

But yeah, firewalls need to be off....

PS this works for game like BF2, CSS, DoDS and COD2...all of which we play through wireless lan...

[=MBG= De Sniper]

Isnt there too much of a liability of your computer being attacked or getting a virus. I know my computers get attacked. My old computer I reinstalled it and had it hooked up to the internet for maybe 2 hours and it got about 8 or 9,000 viruses/spyware/adware/malware junk on it I couldnt believe it.

[maxclark]

Well usually when me and my friends are connected to a computer-computer network we aren't playing through the internet (and in this case we are usually all gathered together...)

If you are connected to the internet by the same server, then i think wireless LAN should work, and yeah virus attacks may happen....i have Norton Internet Security 2007, and it blocks any intrusions....do you have an anit-virus software?

[=MBG= De Sniper]

Ya I have IOLO Antivirus and Firewall. This isnt going into a server for a game like AOE 3. We start the game, go to multiplayer, Host a server through LAN and it doesnt show up on the other computer hooked into our wireless or Cable modem hub.

[manuleka]

can you see other machine(s) on your windows network?

[=MBG= De Sniper]

No I cant, I can only see my own computer so should I go through and set up a network. I usually do it when I install my OS but I didnt install it on this computer so I must have to do that.

[leishi85]

how do you get that many viruses or spyware in couple hours after reinstalling windows is beyond. You couldn't have got it, if u didn;t go to certain sites or do certain stupid things.

[=MBG= De Sniper]

I know thats what I said when I saw it all I was doing was installing the drivers on my computer.