Share Internet Connection Wirelessly
Share your internet connection wirelessly without buying a wireless router, isn’t that cool?
all you need to have is a usb wireless adapter which you can buy one for a very minimal cost, i bought mine for around 15 bucks. The usb wireless adapter must support SoftAP, meaning, you can turn your computer or the host computer into a Wireless Access Point and accept wireless client connections.
This guide was tested using Windows XP SP2 and Realtek RTL8187 chipset USB wireless adapter but any wireless lan adapter should work as long as it has a SoftAP feature.
USB Wireless Adapter Installation
1. Insert the USB Wireless Adapter to any of the vacant USB port in your computer and install the driver when asked.
2. After installing the driver, you should now have the USB wireless adapter utility where you can view your signal strength and the detected wireless network within range.
Setting up Access Point
1. Open the USB wireless adapter utility. Click on Mode Menu and click on Access Point, wait until the Access Point setup is finished.
2. Now that you have the USB wireless adapter changed to Access Point mode, click on the config button. Enter your desired SSID and set the channel to auto. The leave the network authentication to Open System and data encryption to WEP.
3. Under network key, enter your WEP key e.g “9198209068″ and click OK to save.
Setting up the Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
1. Now, It is time to share your internet connection to the connected wireless clients. Click on ICS tab (Internet Connection Sharing).
2. Select the public interface, the interface connected to the internet and click the Apply button, wait until the setup is finished.
3. Fire up your favorite browser and try to browse or open a command prompt window and ping an outside network host (try 4.2.2.2). Once you got a reply then you’re all setup.
This setup also works for smart bro connection and ideal to connect your laptop computer or Ipod Touch to the internet.
That is all about it, enjoy surfing wirelessly!
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15 Comments on Share Internet Connection Wirelessly »
krong @ 7:12 am:
hi. what usb wireless adapter can you recommend? thanks!
Batman @ 12:13 pm:
get loopcomm’s LP-8187 Wireless LAN USB 2.0 Adapter. you can either get the LP-8187I which the antenna is internal or the LP-8187E which has an external antenna (good for long distance point-point connection by connecting a high-gain antenna). both supports soft-ap function and good signal reception compared to known brands. i bought mine from cdrking.
krong @ 2:44 pm:
thank you so much! now i know what to buy.. another thing, will one adapter be usable to a second pc and a laptop? coz we have 2 pcs and i use a laptop too..
Batman @ 11:26 pm:
welcome, you can use one adapter (as Access Point) to connect the rest of your PCs wirelessly assuming all your PCs have wireless adapter too, your laptop might have a built-in wireless adapter already.
HTH
krong @ 8:03 am:
sorry to bug you but i’m still not getting it. i used to have my cousin as my technician, now i’m on my own and i’m not really good at this. as i’ve said, i have two pcs and a laptop. pc#1 will be the one with the smartbro and pc#2 and my laptop will get connected wirelessly.. i think both my pcs dont have LAN wireless cards yet, so i have to buy one for each? also a wireless usb adapter for each? if you can help me with what i need to buy, i’d really appreciate it. thanks again!
Batman @ 7:47 pm:
you only need to buy usb wireless lan adapter for each pc and configure pc#1 which is connected to smartbro as access point, pc#2 and laptop as clients.
Roy @ 8:51 pm:
I recently bought WLAN USB adapter to improve the wifi signal of my Acer4520. My problem is that my laptop wireless and my WLAN is not synchronize. I need your help and expertise to resolve this problem.
Thank you,
Roy
Batman @ 10:05 pm:
Roy,
I will assume the “not synchronize” words means not connected or unable to connect. with that, here’s the few things that you can do.
first, make sure that your laptop’s built-in wireless card is disabled, then in your USB wireless utility, enable or use windows zero configuration then connect to your wireless network the way you normally do when using the built-in wireless adapter.
hope that helps.
Rex @ 2:10 pm:
My neighbor and I want to share his internet. He has a WRT54GS and I have a WRT54GS. I have 4 devices wired to my router and my wireless laptop. He has devices hard wired to his router and his wireless laptop. How can I connect my WRT54GS to his WRT54GS??? so we can share the internet?
tamer @ 9:18 am:
I will assume the “not synchronize” words means not connected or unable to connect. with that, here’s the few things that you can do.
first, make sure that your laptop’s built-in wireless card is disabled, then in your USB wireless utility, enable or use windows zero configuration then connect to your wireless network the way you normally do when using the built-in wireless adapter.
hope that helps.
decoy @ 9:54 am:
hi! i just bought a cdrking LP-8187E wireless usb adapter for my desktop to share a wireless connection to my router. the thing is it always comes up with a 169.xxx.xxx.xxx ip address. is there anything i can do with it? please help me. thanks!
czar @ 5:16 am:
how did you know that the USB wireless adapter supports softAP?
Joel @ 4:47 pm:
I need the sofware 4 a enuwi-g2,where can I find it?
Batman @ 2:52 am:
Joel,
check out the url below.
http://www.encore-usa.com/ph/support/ENUWI-G2
ran @ 7:33 am:
hey can u help me i need to know my network key im using a wireless usb adapter and my internet is connected to a none wireless router i mean my router is dlink with no wireless connection thats why i bought a usb wireless lan so that i can use it for my laptop.. the thing is i cant see my network key how can i find it?? i didnt put any wep key but still it ask for the network key