Using laptop as a wireless access point

[gf4200isdabest]

At my vacation house I have a wired router and I wanted to set up wireless for my friends through my laptop by making it act as a wireless router. Is this possible?

 

[Goosemaster]

nah....you could share it with only one using adhoc

 

[BeanDip]

Instead of trying to make a $2000 dollar device do something it was not designed for, I would replace the router with a $50 wireless router and save yourself grief and headaches. The small investment is money well spent compared to the time spent working out bugs, etc.

That way you can use your laptop wireless at the vacation house too instead of being tethered to an ethernet cable.

 

[ktwebb]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
nah....you could share it with only one using adhoc

Why would you think that? Perhaps a limitation of your particular wireless card? It's false as a blanket statement. You can setup wireless workgroups without an AP. Perhaps the budget client cards have a one to one limit? Don't know but you can certainly hit multiple clients in Ad Hoc mode generally speaking.


OP. You'd bridge the wired and wireless connection however I have to agree, just buy an AP if you want to keep your existing router or replace it with a wireless router.