Can I share wireless USB internet through my LAN port to a home network?

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I live in the country where I cant get a land line but I have a wireless air card device that plugs in to a USB port. I want to connect two other computers to the internet as well. I have a LAN/Ethernet port on the back of my computer, is there a way I can use that to hook up the two computers on a home network of sorts(so my computer is acting like a proxy server if that’s what it is?). I kind of know what switches modems hubs so on do I just don’t know how to hook them up and configure them in to a home network. Im running windows 7 pro on my computer, one computer is win7 and the other is win8. Is this possible without buying some sort of server software?
(I’ve built several computers just don’t know much about networking)
Thanks for any help.
 
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Yes I saw that, but it required a wired internet. When I plugged my other computer in to the switch it didn’t pull up the internet, it just sat there trying to identify the connection then says unidentified network.
Reminder this is a USB device, how do I get that to share to the switch through my LAN port.
 
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The USB device still should create a network adapter. You should be able to see it in the network devices.

ICS was originally designed to share a old dialup modem with etherent it just most people now days want to run it in reverse so those are the common examples you see for setting it up. When your PC is setup to share he ethernet port in your PC will give IP addresses to the other PC that are attached to the switch.
 
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Talk to the ISP you got the USB modem from, they should have a list of Routers that will work with that USB device. You can then just setup the router as normal share the connection. Something like this http://www.dlink.com/us/en/home-solutions/work/wireless-mobile-broadband/dir-412-mobile-broadband-wireless-router or http://www.netgear.com/home/products/mobile-broadband/

It will cost extra but will save a lot of time configuring things and you won't need to keep the computer on all the time to share the connection.
 
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So just plug in my laptop to port 2 of a switch then plug my computer in to port one not the uplink, then plug in the power. Go to my adapters and set the Ethernet connection one to share computer internet, then plug in my usb internet aircard and connect? Is this correct? Cause it still doesn’t work.
 
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