How to Set Up a Mercury Wireless Router

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Purchase a parallel or serial cable for networking (a parallel cable is recommended as it is slightly faster). If you cannot buy this type of cable locally, you can make one yourself using two old serial (COM port) mice. The method is very simple: open the mouse and take out the serial mouse cable. You will see it consists of four wires, specifically wires 2, 3, 5, and 7. To make a serial connection cable, you only need wires 2, 3, and 5. Connect them following the “2-3, 3-2, 5-5” wiring method, and it can then be used for direct connection.

Plug the parallel (or serial) cable into the parallel ports of your laptop and the other computer. Then install the connection program, which is the “Direct Cable Connection” program in WINDOWS. The installation method is: start the computer and enter WINDOWS (using 98 as an example), open “My Computer,” select “Control Panel,” then go to “Add/Remove Programs” → “Windows Setup” → “Communications” → “Details” → “Direct Cable Connection” → “OK.” Then specify the drive path where the Windows 98 installation disc (or installation files) is located (the other computer also needs this installation). After the files are copied, the system will prompt you to install the “Microsoft Dial-Up Adapter”; click OK to install it.

Mercury Wireless Router Setup

Next, open “Start” → “Programs” → “Accessories” → “Communications,” where you will find the installed “Direct Cable Connection” option. For the computer acting as the host, select the “Host” option, click “Next,” choose the communication port your computer will use for the connection, and then click “OK.” If this computer is the host, after selecting the communication port, you will need to set up “Use Password Protection,” though it is generally recommended not to set one. Finally, click “OK” to complete the host setup. Once the host is set up, you can configure the “Guest” computer. The Mercury wireless router setup method for the guest is the same as for the host, except you select “Guest” at the initial choice step.

Sharing Setup for Mercury Wireless Router

Once all the above is done, you can start using it. The method is: on both the host and guest computers, click to open “Start” → “Programs” → “Accessories” → “Communications” → “Direct Cable Connection.” The host selects “Listen,” and the guest selects “Connect.” After the system verifies your username and password, it will ask you to enter the other computer’s “Host Name” (which is the “Computer Name” we mentioned setting for that computer earlier). Once completed, you can access various resources set as “Shared” on the host from the guest computer.

Practical Application of Mercury Wireless Router Setup

For many laptops without a CD-ROM drive, or with a severely degraded CD-ROM reading capability, installing an operating system under DOS becomes a major hassle if the system is corrupted. Actually, you can use the INTERSVR and INTERLNK commands in DOS, combined with a parallel/serial connection cable, to easily connect to another computer and share its hard drive resources for Windows installation. First, connect the two computers with the parallel cable, and copy a hard-drive version of PWIN97 (or PWI98) setup files onto the host computer’s hard drive.

Then, boot the computer using a boot floppy disk (or a Netac dual-boot USB drive with a built-in floppy chip that can emulate a floppy drive boot for models with a USB port). Copy these two files from the floppy disk to drive C. Use the EDIT command (under WINDOWS, you can open CONFIG.SYS with Notepad) to edit the CONFIG.SYS file in DOS, adding the command line “DEVICE=C:INTERLNK.EXE” (or DEVICE=C:INTERLNK.exe/DRIVES:10/LPT:1). Then, at the DOS prompt on the computer acting as the server, type the INTERSVR command (you need to copy this file to the root directory of drive C first).

Next, at the system prompt on the machine acting as the client, type the INTERLNK command. The screen will display the mapping relationship between the local (client) drive letters and the actual drives of the other machine (server). This way, using the empty drive letters on the client, you can operate the server’s actual drives, freely copy files, or use them as local drives to install the operating system.

The entire process of Mercury wireless router setup has been described for you. I hope it has resolved your confusion.

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