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Question

How to connect 2 PCs--one E-net, one Wifi

Mar 2, 2015 11:14PM PST

I have looked for an answer, but so far found nothing. I added a new Comcast cable modem to my home, and have an ethernet connection that goes to my home PC in my house. The PC is an older HP with no wireless capability.

About 80 feet away from the house I have a small writing studio with another HP PC in it that does have wireless capability. I connect my Comcast wifi service to this PC through a Netgear WIFI extender.

I run Windows 7 on both PCs.

I used to have these two PCs networked together, but after introducing the new Comcast modem I seem to not be able to connect or network them, and I can't remember how I managed to do it a year or two ago.

The PC away from the house does not "see" the PC in the house on either a network or homegroup, and the same is true with the PC in the house not "seeing" the one away from the house.

I have not been able to get any clear and simple solution to this problem, so am requesting some advice.

The way I had them connected before was by sharing a public folder so that I could read/write text and photo files bertween the two PCs in the shared folder, which is what I would like to be able to do once again.

Thanks!
15-Soquel

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Clarification Request
I don't see the network or parts there of.
Mar 2, 2015 11:48PM PST
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Answer
you need to turn off "AP isolation"
Mar 3, 2015 4:28AM PST

That's used when you want to share wifi to others, but not give them access to shares on your home network.