Internet sharing wifi and USb


  1. Posts : 194
    Windows 7 Ultimate x32bit
       #1

    Internet sharing wifi and USb solved


    How should I bridge or share the internet between these two networks ?


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    Last edited by yousaf465; 21 Sep 2010 at 00:44.
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  2. Posts : 8,870
    Windows 7 Ult, Windows 8.1 Pro,
       #2

    Bridging usually works best for ICS.

    Here's a checklist of things for ICS and file sharing for 2 croslinked computers (in my case a Windows 7 and XP one):

    - both computers set to the same workgroup
    - restarts
    - advanced sharing settings - all things turned on (network discovery etc.) except for password protected sharing
    - bridged the connection with the internet
    - turned on Internet Connection Sharing for the internet connection - this forced an ip to the other connection (192.168.137.1) and gave an option to select which connection should have access to the ICS (the second connection or the bridge - you choose the second / crosslinked cable connection)
    - shared some folders on both computers
    - worked instantly (the other pc aquired a correct ip and internet)

    Using ICS (Internet Connection Sharing)

    Notice how in the link above they use a switch to connect more than one computer to the ICS machine.

    The way you are doing it may not work correctly because you are daisy chaining the ICS machines end to end.
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  3. Posts : 194
    Windows 7 Ultimate x32bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    It working pretty awesome
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  4. Posts : 8,870
    Windows 7 Ult, Windows 8.1 Pro,
       #4

    Looks good yousaf, second one shows no lost packets.
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  5. Posts : 194
    Windows 7 Ultimate x32bit
    Thread Starter
       #5

    How this looks


    ANd look at this one. It starts from just next to my server laptop, Signal is -19,. when connect it from a crowed store room the signal drops to -50. It's around 65 when I put it behind a thick steel cabinet. It again raises to -25 when put it at 5 fts to the server laptop.
    Last edited by yousaf465; 21 Sep 2010 at 02:49.
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  6. Posts : 194
    Windows 7 Ultimate x32bit
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Now again I'm having problem with this network. As you can see it is obtaining wrong ip


    By yousaf465 at 2010-10-23


    I tried to renew the ip and this is what I got

    Code:
    C:\Documents and Settings\compname>ipconfig /renew
    
    Windows IP Configuration
    
    No operation can be performed on Local Area Connection 3 while it has its media
    disconnected.
    An error occurred while renewing interface Wireless Network Connection : unable
    to contact your DHCP server. Request has timed out.

    Tried it again with both ether and wifi on

    Code:
    C:\Documents and Settings\compname>ipconfig /renew
    
    Windows IP Configuration
    
    An error occurred while renewing interface Wireless Network Connection : unable
    to contact your DHCP server. Request has timed out.
    
    Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 3:
    
            Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
            IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.4
            Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
            Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
    
    Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:
    
            Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
            Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.49.92
            Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
            Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
    Last edited by yousaf465; 23 Oct 2010 at 22:51.
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  7. Posts : 194
    Windows 7 Ultimate x32bit
    Thread Starter
       #7

    I connected in Fedora (linux), working fine with this result. 10.42.43.1 for the host and 10.42.43.10 for the client running windows xp.

    ifconfig
    Code:
    [liveuser@localhost ~]$ ifconfig
    eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:0A:AF:BA:D6  
              inet addr:192.168.1.6  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
              inet6 addr: fe80::230:aff:feaf:bad6/64 Scope:Link
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:27665 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:34322 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
              RX bytes:20412861 (19.4 MiB)  TX bytes:11815939 (11.2 MiB)
    
    eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:12:F0:27:5A:37  
              inet addr:10.42.43.1  Bcast:10.42.43.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
              inet6 addr: fe80::212:f0ff:fe27:5a37/64 Scope:Link
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:11923 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:7536 errors:0 dropped:5 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
              RX bytes:8949521 (8.5 MiB)  TX bytes:13174731 (12.5 MiB)
              Interrupt:17 Base address:0x6000 Memory:dfdfd000-dfdfdfff 
    
    eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:43:72:AC:3A  
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
              RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
              Interrupt:18 
    
    lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
              inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
              inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
              UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
              RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
              RX bytes:900 (900.0 b)  TX bytes:900 (900.0 b)
    Code:
    Iwconfig gave this
    
    liveuser@localhost ~]$ iwconfig
    lo        no wireless extensions.
    
    eth0      no wireless extensions.
    
    eth1      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"modem"  
              Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Cell: 02:12:F0:15:10:62   
              Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=8/0  
              Retry limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
              Power Management:off
              Link Quality=97/100  Signal level=-27 dBm  Noise level=-85 dBm
              Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
              Tx excessive retries:2  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
    
    eth2      no wireless extensions.
    
    pan0      no wireless extensions.
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  8. Posts : 194
    Windows 7 Ultimate x32bit
    Thread Starter
       #8

    This time bridging solved the problem. Hopefully it carries on. One questions remain how can you enable ICS and bridging on the same connection at same time ? I bridged my Internet connection and wifi adapter. And it working now.
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