Do wireless USB adapters transmit with no internet signal?

December 10th, 2008 | by Joe |

I had a Dlink DWL-G120 and I was able to communicate with another computer with no internet feed (im on dial up) wirelessly. Is there other Dlink products that also allow me to communicate this way because my adapter is no longer working.
Any wireless adapter, Linksys, Dlink, etc CAN communicate with any other wireless adapter. This is called AD-HOC networking. Here is a full article on it from Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/setup/adhoc.mspx You can run these with or without the internet! So for machine to machine or machine to machine to internet they work. If your adapter has stopped working the most common cause is driver corruption, not the hardware! So reloading the drivers may well fix your issues with your adapter.

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  2. By Tracy L on Dec 10, 2008 | Reply

    Any wireless adapter, Linksys, Dlink, etc CAN communicate with any other wireless adapter. This is called AD-HOC networking. Here is a full article on it from Microsoft.
    http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/setup/adhoc.mspx

    You can run these with or without the internet! So for machine to machine or machine to machine to internet they work.

    If your adapter has stopped working the most common cause is driver corruption, not the hardware! So reloading the drivers may well fix your issues with your adapter.
    References :
    Lots of wifi – TL

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