Just built my brothers pc but not got a wireless card for it yet. In the meantime I was hoping to use a laptop and bridge the connection wireless to wired, and connect the pc to the laptop with Ethernet. I've done this but for some reason it isn't working. The laptop has Internet fine, the pc has got an ip of 192.168.2.9 and it appears in the router DHCP client list with the PC name. However it can't actually connect to the Internet and pingin the router doesn't work. Am I missing something?
Bridging connection
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Instead of trying to use DHCP on the PC, I would give the laptops ethernet card an IP of: 10.0.0.1 and the PC's ethernet card 10.0.0.2, so you would have something like the following:
Router
192.168.2.1
Laptop
192.168.2.x (wireless - DHCP)
10.0.0.1 (255.0.0.0) (wired) (no default gateway or DNS)
PC
10.0.0.2 (255.0.0.0) wired (Default gateway: 10.0.0.2, DNS: 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4)
Then on the laptop, right click the wireless adaptor, properties, then make sure "allow computers to use this connection" (or something like that) is checked!
That should do it
Router
192.168.2.1
Laptop
192.168.2.x (wireless - DHCP)
10.0.0.1 (255.0.0.0) (wired) (no default gateway or DNS)
PC
10.0.0.2 (255.0.0.0) wired (Default gateway: 10.0.0.2, DNS: 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4)
Then on the laptop, right click the wireless adaptor, properties, then make sure "allow computers to use this connection" (or something like that) is checked!
That should do it
Thanks for a reply. A little time after I posted the PC popped up with an 'IP conflict detected' warning. So went into it and changed the IP manually to 192.168.2.15 which was well out of the current range for devices, and it connected perfectly.
Thanks for the reply though, sorry I forgot to update the thread!
Thanks for the reply though, sorry I forgot to update the thread!
