Share wireless through a LAN to other laptop.

Got a wireless router upstairs, and my other older laptop has no wireless. I'd like to connect to my wireless router upstars and then share the internet through the lan to another laptop.

Tried ICS, tried bridging, nothing works. Once I was able (on the older laptop) to see Network and Sharing Center say 'Local and Internet' but then unfortunately the router upstairs rebooted. It's been local only ever since.

Basically I have this laptop (Win 7) connected to my router, then on the wireless settings I have ICS turned on. The other computer cant see the internet connection.. but it can see this computer in the Network and the Internet gateway device "connect to the internet using: 'Dan's Network'

But on the second computer (Vista Ultimate) it just says local only. Tried a million 'diagnose the problem' on both computers. Tried changing networks from Public to Private etc. Tried everything. I cant get my older computer to connect to the internet through this newer laptop which is connected via wireless.

Bridging the Wireless and LAN on this newer laptop as well didn't do anything..

Anyone familiar with this? It should be easy I'm told but it's impossible so far. I need to be able to share my current wireless network as well as a Dial-Up network (sometimes) that I rarely use from a 3G dongle. Both have the option for ICS.. but the older Vista computer cant connect through to use the internet on either of them..

Ok you get the point. If you have some step by step instructions that would be great. It's my first time ever using this ICS etc. Google hasn't provided anything useful except for 'Use ICS' and I'm trying.

Thanks.

EDIT: Also for some reason I cant create a Homegroup on this newer computer. It just says 'A Homegroup cannot be set up on this machine'.

 

Have you tried a usb wireless adapter. There are quite a few things that can go wrong when trying to share. I have had trouble in the past with it working than not working. I was able to solve the problem with a usb wireless adapter that came on sale at newegg a couple of months ago.

 

Trust me, I'd really rather do this. I want to keep an active LAN connection through my 2 computers anyway for other purposes. Thanks anyway...

If anyone else has a solution though it would be great to hear it.

 

Found out how to do this today... took almost a month. Going to write a blog to my blog on it as well.

Downloaded an amazing little program called 'CCProxy'. Free from google. Turned my comptuer into an imaginary proxy server. Connected up a LAN connection to my other computer in need of internet. Set the settings in Internet Explorer to 'Automatically Detect' and bang next thing I know the computer shows LAN Internet Access.

Turned off CCProxy just to see if that was what it was using. Yup sure enough without it running in the background (Only takes 3mbs of memory) there is no connection. Set it to run automatically on startup so the other laptop has internet whenever this one is turned on and connected.

Really happy with the little program. However it's not displaying the I/O traffic on the status screen. Probably something to do with my firewall. I had to turn Avast! off from Public to Work and then add the other computer's I.P. address into 'Friends' in the Firewall settings.

I also right clicked my wireless connection and just set up ICS just for the hell of it to see if that is needed to be done as well.

All in all I now have a 5MB/s LAN internet connection through my WLAN computer

I am now a very happy man!

P.S. The free version of CCProxy is enough, it allows up to 3 connections/computers. You have to buy it if you want more. Again, use google to find it.

 

If you simply connected both computers to the same router, you would still have a LAN connection between them. Your router would also be able to process the frames much more quickly via hardware switching, as opposed to the software processes involved in sharing a connection via any sort of program. Assuming wireless-n and a clean connection, at least 10-12 times more throughput. Just FYIzzle.

Cheers.

 

If you read the very first sentence of his original post you'd see that his second laptop doesn't have wireless, making that not an option

Good to see you got it working.