Longest USB extension cable

The reason usb cables are only 5m is that they would be unreliable any longer.

Ethernet is defiantly the way to go.
 
Yep, go with the laptop router idea. I've done this before and it was as easy as setting up the connection on the machine and then setting up internet connection sharing.
 
having a bridge such as a cheap laptop is essential.
the usb internet dongles dont like long cables... i use them daily as my basic internet connection.

mine was supplied with a 1m cable and a 6" cable... it gets very little signal and power with the 1m cable and gets maximum connection with the 6".

To share my connection initially i bought a eec netbook and setup network sharing. this also managed to get my xbox 360 onto the xbox live for a short while. although it often drops from games.
 
in windows all youll have to do it highlioght both conenctions and click "bridge". It should then do it all for you. AGES ago (dial up period in time) I had to faff around with ICS in windows to get it to work, but since SP2 and broadband its a breeze. Got my xbox wired into my media center, which wirelessly connects to my housemates router. Got my main pc wired to the router, and sometimes have my primary laptop wireds through that if i need the bandwidth of ethernet instead of it using wireless.

At a mates I where they didnt have the net my lappy managed to....aquire a net connection....which i then just bridge with my conenction to the switch id given them so they could use the net. For that I had to get them to manually set ip's and my ip as the default gateway, isnt very hard though.
 
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