Bad title. Sorry.
ADHD version: I have a laptop that gets internet through a wireless connection to a router. I need this laptop to share its internet to another nearby computer, via wireless. I can set up the ad hoc wireless network on the laptop, no problem. The problem is that when I do, the wireless connection to the router that provides the internet to begin with, drops out. The laptop will connect to either, but not both. What am I doing wrong here?
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Long version: I have a computer with a crap wireless network card. It has bandwidth, but the range is very, very poor. It also seems to be rather easily afflicted by external sources of interference (cell phones, other networks, kitchen appliances, etc). Due to limitations of the mainboard, I can't replace or fit in an extra network card. I have to make do with what I get. I also have a laptop that has a great network card. Excellent bandwidth, excellent reach. Both this laptop and the computer connect to the internet through a wireless router, which is situated in the nearby house of our landlord. Cables between our houses aren't an option, and sharing internet over the power net isn't a possibility since we operate on separate groups.
I thought I could amend the situation by enabling Internet Sharing on the laptop with the good network card, so I set up a (windows 7) Ad Hoc wireless network on it. I connected the computer to it, which worked, but left me with a surprise. No Internet. So I went back to the laptop and checked what was going on. It had lost the internet connection to my landlord's router. I switch it back on and hobble back to the computer. No more network to connect to. The obvious dawns on me. The laptop won't or can't maintain both a connection to the internet router and its own ad-hoc wireless network. Catch 22.
Somehow this doesn't seem right to me. I *know* it is possible to make multiple internet connection in Windows, I just have never done it. So why can't it do the same for Internet Sharing? It defeats its purpose.
Help *much* appreciated.
ADHD version: I have a laptop that gets internet through a wireless connection to a router. I need this laptop to share its internet to another nearby computer, via wireless. I can set up the ad hoc wireless network on the laptop, no problem. The problem is that when I do, the wireless connection to the router that provides the internet to begin with, drops out. The laptop will connect to either, but not both. What am I doing wrong here?
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Long version: I have a computer with a crap wireless network card. It has bandwidth, but the range is very, very poor. It also seems to be rather easily afflicted by external sources of interference (cell phones, other networks, kitchen appliances, etc). Due to limitations of the mainboard, I can't replace or fit in an extra network card. I have to make do with what I get. I also have a laptop that has a great network card. Excellent bandwidth, excellent reach. Both this laptop and the computer connect to the internet through a wireless router, which is situated in the nearby house of our landlord. Cables between our houses aren't an option, and sharing internet over the power net isn't a possibility since we operate on separate groups.
I thought I could amend the situation by enabling Internet Sharing on the laptop with the good network card, so I set up a (windows 7) Ad Hoc wireless network on it. I connected the computer to it, which worked, but left me with a surprise. No Internet. So I went back to the laptop and checked what was going on. It had lost the internet connection to my landlord's router. I switch it back on and hobble back to the computer. No more network to connect to. The obvious dawns on me. The laptop won't or can't maintain both a connection to the internet router and its own ad-hoc wireless network. Catch 22.
Somehow this doesn't seem right to me. I *know* it is possible to make multiple internet connection in Windows, I just have never done it. So why can't it do the same for Internet Sharing? It defeats its purpose.
Help *much* appreciated.
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