Help setting up Wifi hotspot on my laptop

Ok, so I use vista just to let you know.

When I first figured this ability out it was on a mac. I connected my ethernet and setup network and boom I was sending out a wifi signal that people could connect to.

Now im trying this via vista and it aint working.

1. Click Start, Control Panel, Network and Sharing Center .

2. Click Set up a connection or network.

3. Click Set up a wireless ad hoc (computer-to-computer) network, and then click Next.

4. Enter a name for your network, choose a security type (WEP is probably fine, given that you're sharing your network with people you know), and then enter a security key.

5. Check the Save this network box, then click Next.

6. If you see a box marked Turn on Internet Connection Sharing, go ahead and click it.


I follow these steps, but! I do not see a turn on internet connection sharing. So I'm not quite sure how to get it on there. Thanks ahead of time

 

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/0e158c21-4c70-4235-879d-0c9133218e561033.mspx

At step 5 on the Windows Help website, do you get this screen at all:

 

I get that screen, but no internet connection sharing button =/.

Thing to note though is that it doesnt show my computer connecting directly to the internet, it shows it connecting to a gateway then to the internet. Not sure if that is causing a problem, but it worked on my mac =/

 

hmm..... I successfully created a new ad-hoc network just now and I'm connected to my school's network via ethernet.

I've never really used Ad-Hoc, it should theoretically work though

 

The problem is to see if you can get another computer to use that connection

 

i hate this , i hate fricken vista. Microsoft you are lightyears behind apple

 

FIgured out the problem, vista appearently doesn't allow sharing through a gateway

 

Did you explicitly make a bridge connection between your wired ethernet NIC and your wireless NIC? That may be necessary in order for a third computer to join your wireless adhoc network and then access the internet via your wired infrastructure network.

BTW, until/unless you know why you can't do something, there is no brief for blaming it all on "fricken vista." For all you know, this may be a necessary security measure, not backwardness on the part of MS.

 

I tried bridging there is no way possible to do with if there is a gateway involved, and yes it is a backwardness of MS for doing this.

 

what version of vista are you using?? this feature may only be available on certain versions?? dont blame the OS because you cant do something?? anythings possible it just depends how bad you want it.........

 

Internet access through a gateway has nothing to do with the "AdHoc" network. A gate way simply means router. You're accessing the internet through a router. The only problem I can see here is that you. You haven't followed the instructions carefully.

Stop blaming and bashing Vista just because you lack the ability to learn, follow instructions and always assuming the wrong thing.

 

Um, obviously you are commenting on something YOU have never read. Internet connecting through an ad hoc network is not possibly if you are connected to a gateway, says so on their website. And putting a smilie face on the end of an insult doesn't make it less of an insult. I'm not insulting you, nor am I insulting vista, I am merely pointing out the problem, and the competitions better system. Why do you think they are ditiching vista so soon for windows 7 hmm? So please don't come here telling someone they are lacking in any such ability to learn, and follow instructions, when you yourself do no such thing.

 

Could you point me to "their website"?
I bridge my network all the time so I doubt it's a limitation of windows Vista.

 

I think it is you qho owe jackluo923 (and Microsoft) an apology. There is absolutely nothing about sharing an internet connection through an ad-hoc network in _Vista that is incompatible with being connected to a gateway.

How do I know? Because I went and did a little searching on Microsoft's _Vista support website, and came across the webpage that discusses Sharing one Internet connection among several computers. Right down at the bottom of that wonderful little webpage, I came across the following (which I quote verbatim, but I repeat myself ):

Now, if it were impossible to share an internet connection through an ad-hoc network while connected to a gateway, then these notes would be utterly meaningless; in particular, the note that states that " f you share your Internet connection by setting up an ad hoc network, the connection is shared only for that session."

Pray tell me, what exactly is the point of that sentence, assuming, as you've stated, that one cannot share an internet connection across an ad-hoc network when attached to a gateway?

Speaking of which, we haven't discussed the "gateway" I'm referring to. In the examples given on the webpage linked to above, the "gateway" is the broadband modem, identified as (3) in the two images on that webpage.

If you have a connection to the internet, you are necessarily connected to a gateway - if you use a router, your gateway will generally be your router, if you don't, your gateway will either be your broadband modem or some other device at your ISP's end that you connect through.

Thus, since you (a) can share an internet connection through an ad-hoc network, and (b) are necessarily connected to a "gateway" if you have a connection to the internet, it necessarily follows that you must be able to share an internet connection while connected to an ad-hoc network.