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Question

Sharing Wired Connection Identification Issues

Aug 9, 2016 4:50AM PDT

Hi,

I am currently living in a situation where the wifi is communal and in my room the connection is absolutely abysmal. I have connected my laptop to the network with an ethernet cable and everything is fine there.

So I have set up a hosted network to share this connection from my laptop via wifi and connect my phone accordingly.

I only have one problem: whenever the ethernet is disconnected (whether it's sleeping/shutting down the laptop, unplugging the cable or even disabling/enabling the network via windows) it WILL NOT pass the identification stage of connection IF the 'Allow other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection' checkbox is ticked in the 'sharing' tab of the connection's properties.

Are there any ways around this so that I don't have to manually disable/enable every time I power up the laptop?

Second to this is: there a way I can set up the hosted network to automatically start when the computer is booted/awoken? I am quite the novice with a lot of this stuff so if something like a batch file is required could somebody kindly tell me what commands need to be entered?

Thank you for any help!!!

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Answer
Re: wireless
Aug 9, 2016 5:32AM PDT

I'd buy a WAP (Wireless Access Point) in stead of using your laptop as such.

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Temporary situation
Aug 9, 2016 5:47AM PDT

Ah, yes. The thing is I'm only living here for another 3-4 weeks maximum. It's just a temporary setup.