Hey guys!
This is my very first post
I have win7 64bit ultimate, my friend has 32 bit vista ultimate.
He is able to recieve wireless internet with his laptop... I don't have a wireless reciever, so I connected an ethernet cable from this computer to mine, thinking it would allow us to share his wireless internet.
I can connect to his COMPUTER but not to the internet... we've tried enable all the file-sharing options in windows, but nothing seems to work.
any suggestions?
Thanks!
Hello Nick and welcome to Windows 7 Support Forum.
As my esteemed colleague has suggested, without your system specs its a challenge to help trouble shoot your issue.
How ever we understand the basic premise and that is you want to make an internet connection and your machine is the "Slave" so to speak.
The easy fix is to get a wireless nic card, the way you are doing it is workable but you have the wrong hardware! Ie: Ethernet cable. In order to use your friends machine as a bridge you will need crossover cable and a switch. Crossover cabling is similar but different:
The
10BASE-T and
100BASE-TX Ethernet standards use one wire pair for transmission in each direction. The Tx+ line from each device connects to the tip conductor, and the Tx- line is connected to the ring. This requires that the transmit pair of each device be connected to the receive pair of the device on the other end. When a
terminal device is connected to a
switch or
hub, this crossover is done internally in the switch or hub. A standard
straight through cable is used for this purpose where each pin of the connector on one end is connected to the corresponding pin on the other connector.
One terminal device may be connected directly to another without the use of a switch or hub, but in that case the crossover must be done externally in the cable. Since 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX use pairs 2 and 3, these two pairs must be swapped in the cable. This is a
crossover cable. A crossover cable must also be used to connect two internally crossed devices (e.g., two hubs) as the internal crossovers cancel each other out. This can also be accomplished by using a straight through cable in series with a modular crossover adapter.
Because the only difference between the
T568A and T568B pin/pair assignments are that pairs 2 and 3 are swapped, a crossover cable may be envisioned as a cable with one
connector following T568A and the other T568B. Such a cable will work for 10BASE-T or 100BASE-TX.
1000BASE-T4 (Gigabit crossover), which uses all four pairs, requires the other two pairs (1 and 4) to be swapped and also requires the solid/striped within each of those two pairs to be swapped.
