| 27 Charlie, on Jan 20, 2009 2:01:50 am GMTOkay it's easy to do this; you have to bridge your city internet connection over to your router if you have the router hooked up to the computer then you do the following things. Oh and the bridge connection will only work on a windows XP or higher (includeing VISTA)
1. go to the NETWORK CONNECTIONS (Control panel> Network and Internet> NETWORK CONECTIONS)
2. Highlight the connection that is the one that is recieving the city internet connection push and hold shift; then click on the connection that is going to the router; release the shft key. (they should both be highlighted)
3. Right click one of them (it doesn't matter which one) then click BRIDGE CONNECTIONS, then follow the step your computer prompts you to do.
I promise this will work as long as you do it with a Windows based computer.
Sincerally,
Charlie
Microsoft Windows Executive Chairman | 28 D2E, on Jan 22, 2009 4:29:28 am GMTCHARLIE IS RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!
DO EXACTLY WHAT HE SAID!!!!!
I have a HP Desktop running Vista Home Premium, I did exactly what he said, and it connected to a 13 year old HP runnin XP professional, all I had to have was a Cat 5 cable and that was it just like he said. I have been looking for a verrrrrrrrrrrrrrry long time on how to do this, as the two operating systems conflicted, but i read this and it worked thanks so much!!!!!
You might have to wait a sec or two for everything to kick in but when it does you will, jizz - in - your - pants, ha ha that was gay, n e ways thanks to charlie and no one else! |
| This is exactly what i am trying to do but have had limited success. I have a usb antenna plugged into my desktop and have a strong signal coming in to my house. I also have a router connected to the Ethernet port which i would like to have send out the signal to my laptop around the house. after going to my network connection i highlight both the wireless connection and the local area connection which is connected to the router. i right click and bridge the two connects. It appears to be successful and the bridge and the local area connection say connected. but as soon as the bridge is up the wireless cuts off. if i right click the bridge and delete it then my wireless immediately comes back. Does anyone have any idea whats goin on? | 35 brigini, on Mar 4, 2009 2:36:36 am GMTTo answer the question about bridging connections but then they cut out you have to first disable sharing in the advanced tab of the incoming internet signal. then the two will bridge. then remove from bridge the internet signal and enable sharing again. this does it for my xp laptop but u might have to re add it to the bridge after this. the bridge works because i can take a free wireless signal from outside my home, bridge connections to my xbox and run an ethernet cord from the laptop outside to the xbox inside to get Live. my question is can i get a wireless router to sit outside, gather this signal and push it through to my computer (in ethernet cable form is fine) or maybe just make the signal stronger so it will reach into the house. | 48 skyo78, on Apr 2, 2009 5:31:39 pm BST@brigini, u are the man. saved me a lot of time and hussle. more grease to ur elbows |
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| 36 gi, on Mar 11, 2009 5:09:05 pm GMTI have the same problem did you get an answer on how to make this work? please let me know.
Thanks,
GI | 37 brigini, on Mar 11, 2009 8:01:57 pm GMTNah, it won't work. When I put the router towards the wireless signal I will just give off its own false signal (a wireless signal with no internet behind it.) Plus the routers signal is stronger and won't let me find the original (real ) internet signal. The solution I believe is to get a signal extender which is about 90 bucks at the cheapest and against my whole point of trying to do this the cheap way. At any rate, I'm on to trying to get ICS through a proxy signal. |
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| 38 gi, on Mar 12, 2009 2:35:00 pm GMTI have the same isue did you find how to do that i could use this information.
Thanks,
Gi | 42 brigini, on Mar 17, 2009 4:28:13 pm GMTNah man, I've given up. It won't work. To make an already wireless signal stronger u need to buy a wireless extender. That's the only way. Is that what u were trying to do? |
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| 45 Dabiggchill, on Mar 24, 2009 9:54:14 pm GMTCharlie,
I am running Vista from a laptop connection. I have been trying to take in my wireless signal and send out a hardwired signal to my Tivo. I was able to do this for a desktop that ran XP but cannot figure out how I did that a while back. Any way, can you please tell me how to set this up on the laptop so I can download guide info and such.
Thank you in advance,
Will |
| 46 uvuvq uvp, on Mar 26, 2009 10:14:21 am GMTIf you experience problems you might want to try this out after following Charlies instructions:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302348/en-us
1. At a command prompt, type netsh bridge show adapter.
2. Locate the identification number of the NIC that is not responding.
3. If the NIC is not in Compatibility mode, you can change it manually if you type the following command, where 1 is the number of the NIC that is displayed in the first step:
netsh bridge set adapter 1 forcecompatmode=enable
4. Run the netsh bridge show adapter command again to verify that the ForceCompatabilityMode field for the NIC is displayed as Enabled. |
| 53 dxsub, on Jun 19, 2009 10:18:38 am BSTOMG! After 3 hours of trial and error, with lots of fruitless searching through forums, Charlie gave the answer. I can't believe after so much work the solution took about 30 seconds. Thanks!! |
| 55 finally, on Sep 19, 2009 11:23:39 pm BSTCharlie and Brigini you guys are awesome! I too wasted hours and hours trying to get my wireless to give a connection to the LAN which is hooked to my 360. Now I can play on live!! |
| 56 Nan, on Nov 16, 2009 4:33:02 am GMTMy computer has an ethernet port (integrated LAN 10/100/1000), but no modem. Will a usb WiFi adapter allow the computer to connect to my wireless DSL home network? I am running windows 7
thanks
Nan |
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