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Three-way networking

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Fluxeon

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Figured I might as well ask around and see what people think about this. So my laptop has three network adapters, a USB WiFi adapter, the internal WiFi adapter, and an Ethernet adapter. Only the USB adapter is connected to the internet, and the Ethernet runs the connection down into my desktop. All three adapters are configured into a network bridge, which lets the actual connection flow smoothly and it's been working really well.

My quest for the past few days has been to create a WiFi network through the unused internal adapter to make something of a hotspot that I can get the rest of my stuff onto with a good internet connection, but after a ton of fiddling around I'm not entirely sure that's how it works; the furthest I've gotten is a message on my Kindle saying that it connected to the network but did not have internet access through it. I'm using Windows 8.1 so the network and sharing center that we all know and love from 7 is nonexistent here, so I've opened up Command Prompt in admin mode and used the commands

netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=Hotspot key=[FIELD]

and

netsh wlan start hostednetwork

which make the network show up to other devices, and this is where my Kindle says no internet for me once connected to it. Does anyone know how to make this work, or should I just give up?
 
Is there some reason that you can't just buy a router?

I've used "VirtualRouter" on Windows 7, and it's just a GUI front-end to Windows 7/8/8.1's "hosted network" feature, but I was never able to get it to work to my satisfaction.
 
Aside from not needing or really wanting to spend the money on a quality piece, not really. We've got a rather weird setup here that's complicated at best and this is mostly just a side project to try and be as helpful as possible. Not essential, but if it can be done I'd certainly like to know how. I'll check out VirtualRouter, thanks.
 
Sounds like you need a router. If you wanted to do this entirely on your laptop, you could install PFSense in Virtualbox, and assign to the VM the NICs you want to route. You will probably have to put the wireless adapter in ad-hoc mode, and then get it to play nicely with PFSense. I've never tried it this way before, but in principle it should work.

You can also bridge your internet connection to one of the unused NICs and connect it to something like this:

http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-WR7...sin=B007PTCFFW

Good luck.
 
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