Internet connection sharing over wireless?

[yhelothar]

So I have my desktop computer hooked up directly to the internet with an additional wireless adapter ad hoc to the wireless adapter to my laptop. I want to share my desktop internet to my laptop.

I tried to enabled ICS, but it won't even show up!1!! I went to the wireless connection properties on the desktop to enable ICS, but there's no sharing tab!
Microsoft's site says i need to be connected to more than one network for it to share up.. I FUCKING AM!!1!!

Then I read that I could bridge my LAN connection to my wireless.. and then I open up network connections, AND MY LAN CONNECTION WON'T SHOW UP!
It only shows the wireless connection.

Not to mention the wireless connection breaks every few minutes. Now it won't even reconnect. It just goes to acquiring network address for a few seconds and then disconnects.

Does anyone know WTF is going on?

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: astroidea
So I have my desktop computer hooked up directly to the internet.

I do not know what that means. No computer Directly connects to the Internet.

So unless you clarify this issue any answer could be false.

Otherwise. make sure that ICS is Off.

Configure the computer with these Static IPs.

Host Computer Second Network card (the one that goes to the client computer).

IP 192.168.0.1
subnet mask 255.255.255.0
default gateway 192.168.0.1
domain nameserver 192.168.0.1

The Client computer Network card
IP 192.168.0.2
subnet mask 255.255.255.0
default gateway 192.168.0.1
domain nameserver 192.168.0.1

Switch On ICS and it should work pending on What "hooked up directly to the internet" means.

 

[kevnich2]

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[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: JackMDS

Originally posted by: astroidea
So I have my desktop computer hooked up directly to the internet.

I do not know what that means. No computer Directly connects to the Internet.

So unless you clarify this issue any answer could be false.

Otherwise. make sure that ICS is Off.

Configure the computer with these Static IPs.

Host Computer Second Network card (the one that goes to the client computer).

IP 192.168.0.1
subnet mask 255.255.255.0
default gateway 192.168.0.1
domain nameserver 192.168.0.1

The Client computer Network card
IP 192.168.0.2
subnet mask 255.255.255.0
default gateway 192.168.0.1
domain nameserver 192.168.0.1

Switch On ICS and it should work pending on What "hooked up directly to the internet" means.

Pardon my lack of proper lingo, I meant hooked up without any routers. Not sure if it matters anyways.
Either way, I tried what you said. I went to ip protocol(ipv4 for vista system) and typed it in. It also asked for an alternate DNS address, i used 192.168.0.5 for that on both systems.

I'm not sure where to enable ICS though.
I went to this page to find out how
http://windowshelp.microsoft.c...-fb92bc2b14771033.mspx
But I don't see the sharing tab at all.

Also do I enable ICS on the host wireless or on the host LAN?

Thanks!

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: kevnich2
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alright, I just tried hooking up a wireless router and the thing won't let me pull an IP, it says limited or no connectivity.
As a result, I'm unable to login to the router to even configure it.

why doesn't anything want to work for me?

 

[RebateMonger]

What happens when you connect the laptop to the router, using the same cable and using a different cable?

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Have you tried looking at the Knowledge Base article on microsoft.com?

 

[Lemon law]

To astroidea,

I agree with JackMDS, we still know almost nothing about the way you are set up in terms of the way you even get the internet into the desktop, and for that matter, if Microsoft ICS, rather than simply networking through a wireless router is the best and cheapest way for you to go. My guess is that it would be easier to set up wireless networking with a router, rather than to try ICS, but until I know more, its just a guess.
I have a ICS network, its a snap to set up hardwired, but if you want wireless, its not something I have direct experience with. But I believe you can get a wireless card to go into your motherboard, and use ICS that way. But with wireless you needs some security or everyone in a 300 ft radius may join your wireless set up. You also may be able to get something to go into your USB ports to send wireless from the desktop to the labtop.

But you will get the limited or no connectivity message until you run the microsoft net work set up wizard on both computers, if you want ICS. And the exact ICS procedure is differs depending if you have the same OS on the desktop and laptop or different OS's. And in general, ICS takes a crossover cable and networking through a router takes a straight through aka a patch cable.

And as a later add on edit, have you made sure you have all the needed networking protocols installed on your desk top computer and laptop computers, if not, they can be installed from your original windows set up disk. And are often not selected when windows was originally set up. But if any of those protocols are missing, nothing in networking will work until they are in the desk top and laptop and enabled. And as a test, are you able to take your laptop to some other wifi hot spot and get it to detect and join their network? A Starbucks coffee shop for example.

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: Lemon law
To astroidea,

I agree with JackMDS, we still know almost nothing about the way you are set up in terms of the way you even get the internet into the desktop

Yeah, honestly I am starting to get tired of the Posts a la:

"I have a problem (I do not have time to describe it) please guess what my problem is, and help me fast".

 

[yhelothar]

Alright so what do you need to know? I tried my best to explain it.
I'm using my apartment internet that has a LAN jack on the wall. I have a CAT5e cable going from the wall to my desktop's LAN port. The desktop is setup via automatically obtain IP address. It basically just used the default settings.
My desktop goes on the internet fine like that.
Then I have a Netgear WG111T wireless adapter USB hooked up to the USB2.0 port of my computer. I have it configured as an ad-hoc network via windows vista's network and sharing center -> set up a connection or network.
I set a WEP key and I went on my laptop(winxp pro) and connected to it.

Now I followed the instructions that JackMDS provided and set up the ip configurations on the wireless adapters for the desktop and laptop. It connects fine and uses the ip addresses as I set it. But how do I enable internet connection sharing from here?

 

[Lemon law]

I am not familiar with the vista OS, but if its anything similar to XP, step one from where you are is to run the equivalent network setup wizard from the vista desktop, follow the prompts as you set up the desktop as your host computer, then use the floppy disk option because you have a mixed OS, then run the XP version of the network setup wizard on the laptop as the client computer, it will prompt you for the floppy disk from vista you may be able to burn to CD, and then you should be up and running with your limited connectivity message gone. But what you are doing, is making the host computer into a wireless router with sofware.

You also might want to consider buying a wireless router, a patch cable between your apartment wall jack and the wireless router, then a patch cable from the wireless router to the desk top, and then the laptop should automatically log into the wireless router, then add WEP and you are secure. And then your internet resides on a hardware router instead of using the host computer as a software router, As cheap as wireless routers are now, its another option that dodges the mixed OS questions. Or use your USB thing and wireless connect to the desk top and avoid the second patch cable.

I am a big fan of ICS, but in my case I do not have your set of options, so using a router would be super expensive for me. But in your case, a wireless router may be your cheapest and best option. The world is all about selecting your best options. And networking can be a daunting subject for a newbie, learning about pinging, ipconfig commands, and avoiding firewall complications can be a strange new world, especially when none of it works yet.

Having a network knowledgeable friend coming on site is a big help, I wish I could even fit that bill, but we are 2000 miles away.

 

[Young Grasshopper]

send me a pm, ill do a webex on your machine and figure out whats wrong for you and fix it