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by cobra728 - 11/18/05 5:37 AM

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Internet from desktop through laptop broadband Wireless?

by cobra728 - 11/18/05 5:37 AM

I am in an area that cable and hardwire access to broadband is impossible. What I am able to do, is to have the laptop access Wireless Broadband with Verizon PCMICA card. Must say it is good. What I also have is a router for the home that the laptop and PC both connect to for file transfers. I want to be able to have both laptop and desktop on the LAN and from the desktop access the internet through the laptop which has the wireless card. How can this be done? I do not want to use MS Remote or pcAnywhere. I want to route internet access from the desktop to the wireless laptop. Both laptop and desktop are XP Pro.
Thanks for any help

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by jackintucson

- 11/18/05 11:15 AM In reply to: Internet from desktop through laptop broadband Wireless? by cobra728

computers are slave to the router one way or another. What you want to do can't be done...yet.

and life goes on...

Jack

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Ought to be possible

by sk43999 - 11/19/05 7:49 AM In reply to: Internet from desktop through laptop broadband Wireless? by cobra728

I did something similar once using Linux on the laptop. The laptop does all the work - it acts as the router and firewall and does NAT (network address translation). Your router box, which your are using to connect your internal network, is just used as a hub (which it sound like is all it is doing now).

I don't have XP Pro, but according to Microsft, XP Pro's Internet Connection Sharing:

''Connects a small office network to the Internet, using a dial-up or broadband connection. Windows XP Professional can provide network address translation, addressing, and name resolution services for all computers on a small business network to share a single connection.''

The devil, of course, is always in the details.

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