Sharing wireless connection to multiple PC's

[CREATIVE!11]

Hi guys, tried searching about this for ages but I just get more and more lost, literally been trying 3 hours now to understand all jargon and it's so hard to even know what I'm actually looking for, let me explain it

I live next door to my friends, they have v.fast virgin fibre and are letting me piggyback with my wireless adapter for moment, now I want to be able to share the internet with my other housemates with my pc as a host.

I basically connect through my wireless card to mates internet and then I want to share it from my pc to my 2 other housemates using a switch via ethernet cable. I can share it to 1 other pc no problem using internet connection sharing in windows 8 directly via Ethernet cable pc to pc, but soon as I try share via cable from my pc to the switch then to their pc it won't work.

How would I go about doing this? hopefully i've explained it clearly

 

[PistolPete]

Adding a switch in itself should not stop ICS from working - Sounds to me like there is a logical fault somewhere.

I'd be checking the following:
Switch ports - are they both lit up, same for the lights on the NICs.
Is the non ICS machine set for DHCP?
Is the non ICS machine getting an IP address from the ICS machine or is it a 169.254.x.x IP address. If it is getting a (I think) 192.168.x.x address, can you ping or tracert to 8.8.8.8?
Do either machine give any error messages?

 

[CREATIVE!11]

Adding a switch in itself should not stop ICS from working - Sounds to me like there is a logical fault somewhere.

I'd be checking the following:
Switch ports - are they both lit up, same for the lights on the NICs.
Is the non ICS machine set for DHCP?
Is the non ICS machine getting an IP address from the ICS machine or is it a 169.254.x.x IP address. If it is getting a (I think) 192.168.x.x address, can you ping or tracert to 8.8.8.8?
Do either machine give any error messages?

I have an old netgear router set up as a switch, was using it to share our internet before connected directly to our router it exploded, however...I had forgotten what I did before to share our internet i manually assigned Ip's I think etc

I'll check all u've mentioned.

 

[Orcvader]

How about setting up the router as a wireless bridge instead? That way the internet connection will not be reliant on your PC.

Could give this a go if your Netgear is supported by DD-WRT: http://www.techsupportforum.com/3785-how-to-convert-a-second-router-into-a-wireless-bridge/

 

[PistolPete]

How about setting up the router as a wireless bridge instead? That way the internet connection will not be reliant on your PC.

Could give this a go if your Netgear is supported by DD-WRT: http://www.techsupportforum.com/3785-how-to-convert-a-second-router-into-a-wireless-bridge/

This is a MUCH better ideal.

 

[CREATIVE!11]

How about setting up the router as a wireless bridge instead? That way the internet connection will not be reliant on your PC.

Could give this a go if your Netgear is supported by DD-WRT: http://www.techsupportforum.com/3785-how-to-convert-a-second-router-into-a-wireless-bridge/

could give that a go,

only reason I asked about switch method was cause I had done it before fine but all of sudden won't work and I'm raging at it! also when we get our own internet back I may as well remember how to do it / fix it.

Like guy above said I'm obv doing something wrong so i'll look at it tonight and try again maybe then try bridge method.

 

[CREATIVE!11]

could give that a go,

only reason I asked about switch method was cause I had done it before fine but all of sudden won't work and I'm raging at it! also when we get our own internet back I may as well remember how to do it / fix it.

Like guy above said I'm obv doing something wrong so i'll look at it tonight and try again maybe then try bridge method.

Damn that method sounded amazing but I don't have router to support DD-wrt