Question Sharing WiFi connection over ethernet on Windows 10

[Goi]

Hi,

I have a Windows 10 machine with a wireless internet connection. I also have a Yamaha network media player that only connects to a network over ethernet. Is it possible to connect my Windows machine's ethernet port to my network media player's ethernet port, and provide it with Internet?

 

[ch33zw1z]

Yes, technically it's possible, but not the preferred method:

Internet Connection Sharing in Windows 10

How am i can share my internet to another computer or laptop i had connected from wifi first device second device how am i share internet ***Subject edited for clarity by the moderator.***

answers.microsoft.com

What type of wireless connection does the Win10 machine have? Mobile data from a provider like AT&T / Verizon / etc.....or does it use a WiFi connection.

 

[Goi]

Yes, technically it's possible, but not the preferred method:

Internet Connection Sharing in Windows 10

How am i can share my internet to another computer or laptop i had connected from wifi first device second device how am i share internet ***Subject edited for clarity by the moderator.***

answers.microsoft.com

What type of wireless connection does the Win10 machine have?

Wireless AC. Anyway I did come across that link in my google searches, but I got stuck at step #2 because there's no "Properties" when I click on either Wi-Fi or Ethernet, only "Pin to Start". I also don't see any "Properties" or "Sharing" settings when I select either WiFi or Ethernet either.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Wireless AC

Ok, so you join an SSID and enter a passphrase?

 

[Goi]

Ok, so you join an SSID and enter a passphrase?

Yes, just like any other WiFi connection.

I see options to share Internet connection over WiFi, under mobile hotspot, but not the other way round.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Ok, is the Wifi connection something you control? You can use something like this to pick up the wifi and and wire the media player

if the wifi isn't something you admin, you should check with the person who does before anything else IMO

 

[Goi]

Yes, it's my home network so I control everything. I know I can pick up a mobile router/wireless bridge and plug it in my media player to convert WiFi to ethernet, but I'm thinking I have a full fledged desktop with a wireless connection and an available ethernet port that's on the same desk as my media player, so perhaps I can make it do what a mobile router/wireless bridge can?

 

[ch33zw1z]

Yes, follow the steps in the first reply to share the connection. Mind you, it's like creating a separate network behind the NIC, "talking" to the media play may not work just right as opposed to bridging the connection which keeps the media player on the same network.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Wireless AC. Anyway I did come across that link in my google searches, but I got stuck at step #2 because there's no "Properties" when I click on either Wi-Fi or Ethernet, only "Pin to Start". I also don't see any "Properties" or "Sharing" settings when I select either WiFi or Ethernet either.

hey, replying to the ninja edit. step 2 should be "under Change Network Settings, choose Change Adapter Options". Then right click your wifi connection, choose properties, then at the top choose sharing.

 

[Goi]

hey, replying to the ninja edit. step 2 should be "under Change Network Settings, choose Change Adapter Options". Then right click your wifi connection, choose properties, then at the top choose sharing.

Thanks. I got as far as step 5, but I don't see a "Microsoft Hosted Virtual Adapter", only Ethernet/Ethernet2 and my VMWare Network adapters.

Looking at the "Network adapters" tree within my device manager, I also don't see "Microsoft Hosted Virtual Adapter", even if I show hidden devices.

Furthermore, when I try to enable hosted network with the command "netsh wlan start hostednetwork" with admin privileges, I get the error message "
The hosted network couldn't be started. The group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation."

I have a Gigabyte Z370M D3H motherboard with Intel GbE LAN chip, and a PCIe WiFi adapter with an Intel AX200 WiFi 6 chip.

 

[mxnerd]

Don't waste your time using MS Wi-Fi sharing, it never works and never will since Windows XP.

Buy a router or access point/wifi extender/bridge.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Don't waste your time using MS Wi-Fi sharing, it never works and never will since Windows XP.

Buy a router or access point/wifi extender/bridge.

I generally agree. I've used it before, on win7, and it was ok, but just picky and not easy to get working. Win10 updates have a tendency to break things, especially networking, so I wouldn't want to use ICS

OP, there are quite a few guides out there, if you're dead set on getting this going, just pick thru the guides until you have enough info to make it work.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yeah. I read a comment, from someone, about the post-XP ICS drivers, and how ever since they enabled multi-threading in the NDIS driver stack, ICS has never worked right. (In newer OSes.) Someone commented that they had done some Wireshark'ing, and ICS was sending data out-of-order. I don't know how true that is.

But my experiences trying to turn a PC into a wifi hotspot weren't good either.

 

[SamirD]

I know back in the windows 95 days you could just flat out bridge interfaces, basically creating a switch (you could even do this between token ring and ethernet, which is what I used it for). Maybe that's still an option today?