internet enabled laptop connected to wireless router with ethernet for wifi for other

[jd53887]

1. laptop has internet through usb or wireless ad hoc connection (ad hoc connection preferred)
2. Attached is an ethernet cable from the ethernet port of the laptop to the WAN port of the router.

How can I get the laptop to share the internet connection with the wireless router?

$20 paypal prize to anyone who can get me to do this!
(sharing an internet connection through a second wireless adapter MAY be an option, but it CAN'T be an ad-hoc connection, the ds lite and other little devices just wont work)

 

[Fardringle]

Internet Connection Sharing will do this. Just share the wireless connection with the wired adapter in the laptop. If you want the laptop to be able to share files and/or printers with computers that are connected to your router, disable DHCP on the router and connect the laptop to one of the LAN ports on the router instead of the WAN port.

Windows XP instructions:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306126

Vista instructions:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Using-ICS-Internet-Connection-Sharing#section_2

 

[JackMDS]

If you use the Router as a Router you would have double Routing and double trouble

Thus the Router should be configured as an Access Point.

Principle here, http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html

All IPs should be configured as static IPs to Match the subnet of ICS (192.168.0.x)

Then use Windows ICS for Routing.

 

[jd53887]

If you use the Router as a Router you would have double Routing and double trouble

Thus the Router should be configured as an Access Point.

Principle here, http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html

All IPs should be configured as static IPs to Match the subnet of ICS (192.168.0.x)

Then use Windows ICS for Routing.

I don't understand this... where is the double routing? The wireless router and the laptop?

 

[jd53887]

Internet Connection Sharing will do this. Just share the wireless connection with the wired adapter in the laptop. If you want the laptop to be able to share files and/or printers with computers that are connected to your router, disable DHCP on the router and connect the laptop to one of the LAN ports on the router instead of the WAN port.

Windows XP instructions:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306126

Vista instructions:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Using-ICS-Internet-Connection-Sharing#section_2

so... it didnt work. this is what I did:
1. enabled sharing like instructed.
2. enabled IPv4 to obtain ip address automatically on all computers
3. insert ethernet from internet enabled laptop to router's WAN, but but got unidentified network.
4. insert ethernet to port1 instead and was able to configure router and all that. on laptop it says internet access on both the wired and wireless connection. weird...
5. I tried to connect my other computer to new router, a good connection was made and it says Internet Access also but I wasn't able to go online.
6. I turned off private DHCP, same thing, except now my laptop says Internet Access only on the wifi connection of my laptop and not the ethernet connection. same problem as number 5.

 

[JackMDS]

Where do you get the Wireless from?

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[jd53887]

Where do you get the Wireless from?

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I get it from my phone through an ad hoc connection or from my home router... i tried both

 

[JackMDS]

I get it from my phone through an ad hoc connection or from my home router... i tried both

I do not exactly understand what this means?

Ad-Hoc it a Type of Wireless connection, what it has to do with the Phone?

You have to try to describe clearly the make up of your system. Technology is Not politics, in technology words need to mean some thing tangible.

However, if there is a already a Router at the entry point, the best solution is to create two solid independent Networks and Bridge the whole thing.

No matter what, the second Wireless Router has to be configured has an Access Point and Not as a Router.

This is the principle of Bridging.

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/wxpbrdge.html

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[jd53887]

I do not exactly understand what this means?

Ad-Hoc it a Type of Wireless connection, what it has to do with the Phone?

You have to try to describe clearly the make up of your system. Technology is Not politics, in technology words need to mean some thing tangible.

However, if there is a already a Router at the entry point, the best solution is to create two solid independent Networks and Bridge the whole thing.

No matter what, the second Wireless Router has to be configured has an Access Point and Not as a Router.

This is the principle of Bridging.

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/wxpbrdge.html

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wow you seemed annoyed at what I said. My phone gives off a wireless signal. The type is an ad hoc. The normal kind of wireless routers does not broadcast ad hoc. Some devices can not connect to ad hoc connections, only the normal types. Laptops and computers CAN connect to ad hoc connections to get internet... and my laptop does do this. What I want to do is connect my wireless router to my laptop so other devices such as a Nintendo DS or an MID can connect to it for internet. I believe I used all my technological terms correctly. I think you failed to understand the concept. I guess this is possible to be my failure to communicate... but I think you were too quick to rush judgement by assuming I'm a dumbass.

I am going to reword my confusing sentence again. My phone, which broadcast only a ad hoc signal, gave my laptop internet. Also, I have a normal broadband connection that is connected to my router. Both gives my laptop internet. Trying both by following the directions, it failed to give my second computer with a wireless card an internet connection.

I will try bridging with the links you gave me tomorrow.

I do not understand the difference between configuring a router and an access point. I thought an access point is the place where you connect to for internet, so in conjunction, you configure a router (turning on the wifi) to make an access point. Am I incorrect?

 

[ecom]

You can use the Windows Internet connection sharing. On the wireless router, do you need the LAN ports? If not, use those instead of the WAN port if you want to use it as an AP. If you have to use the WAN port, see if the router has some kind of VLAN configuartion and put the WAN and LAN ports on the same VLAN and then turn off the routing, DHCP, etc.

If you put it to the WAN port and then use the routing functions of the wireless router, you get double NAT which leads to various connectivity issues. If you can't put the WAN on the same VLAN, then you'll have to use the LAN ports. You'll still have to disable the routing, DHCP, etc on the router. What you'll end up with is an AP and the 4 port switch will just be that plus the AP connected to it.

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If you want access for wired devices rather than wireless devices, it may be possible to put your router in a wireless client bridge mode so that the wireless portion of the device connects to the adhoc network and then allows devices on the 4 port switch to use resources on the wireless network.