Attempts to create Wi-Fi hotspot from laptop disconnect the ethernet

[gummeh]

I have a laptop which gets connected to the internet via an ethernet cable.
And I'm trying to use the laptop to create a Wi-Fi hotspot. Ordinarily when I create a wi-fi network, other devices simply won't connect to it.

So in the Network and Sharing Center, I go to "Change adapter settings" in the left hand menu. I go to the "Wireless Network Connection #" which is labelled with the wireless hardware name.
This connection is also the one under which all the available wi-fi networks in the taskbar menu appear.

I right-click on it to access the properties, and go to the "Sharing" tab. There's an option to "Allow other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection".
It requires me to select a "Home networking connection", and I'm not sure what to select. If I select "Local Area Connection", my ethernet internet connection gets disconnected, rendering the whole thing moot

I've tried looking at online tutorials but their menus don't have the Home networking connection option. In fact in this online tutorial, the menu's tabs are labelled "General" and "Advanced", while I see that my tabs are labelled "Networking" and "Sharing".

 

[file3456]

That is the correct tutorial I used a couple months ago actually (dude must have good SEO Search Engine Optimization). And yes, where it got tricky was the different window there with general and advanced. But never the less, it's under sharing. See my screenshot.

The one thing that website does fail to mention is what adapter do you share? I think I had to chose the Ethernet adapter and then select share the Wi-Fi adapter. Or you select the Wi-Fi adapter and chose to share the Ethernet adapter. I'd start with the Ethernet adapter.



The cool thing about creating a Wi-Fi hotspot like that (I use my desktop's Wi-Fi adapter) is that you can then connect your smartphone or tablet to that Wi-Fi hotspot network and then run a network sniffer like Wireshark or Nirsoft's SmartSniff and watch the phone or tablet's traffic. That was my use of the temporary hotspot because an App I had was being blocked with my DNS filtering and I had to know what the exact domain was that was being blocked. Viewing the traffic on the phone in a network sniffer allowed me to see the 403 (block) for that domain.

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In Windows 10 it has a built-in hotspot feature. You just click a button.

 

[gummeh]

I think I had to chose the Ethernet adapter and then select share the Wi-Fi adapter. Or you select the Wi-Fi adapter and chose to share the Ethernet adapter.

So as mentioned in the OP, if I do the latter, my ethernet internet connection gets disconnected. I'm trying the former though I run into the problem of my phone simply not connecting to the network.