- May 26, 2013
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Wifi reception in my house became bad recently so I connected my laptop (Win 8.1 Asus) via an Ethernet cable, and I'm trying to make it work as a router simultaneously so my phone can connect to the laptop and hence the internet.
Using "netsh wlan show drivers" command, I know that my laptop is compatible to create a hostednetwork. I also used the "netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow" to allow the creation of hosted networks. Finally, using the Virtual Router Manager v1.0 (automates the creation of hosted networks I think) I created a hotspot and tried to connect my phone to it.
The problem is that sometimes the phone connects to the hotspot and sometimes it doesn't, but either way, I cannot connect to the internet. I think the issue is the step I supposedly have to do after the mentioned final step, which is to "allow other networks to connect through the computer's internet connection" and selecting Ethernet, but whenever I do that, my actual Ethernet connection becomes "unidentified" and I lose the internet connection from my laptop. Only when I disable to virtual router and "troubleshoot" the ethernet (saying something about the DHCP) does my internet start to work again. Oh and if I skip this step, I don't have access to the internet anyway.
Am I doing something wrong? I don't think I'm missing any steps since I was looking at various articles to help me. I'll post the major ones I looked at below.
Kind of a very long post, but I can't add a tl;dr because everything is essential detail IMO.
http://dottech.org/90970/windows-8-how-to-tether-internet-connection/
http://lifehacker.com/5983161/virtual-router-plus-turns-your-windows-8-pc-into-a-wi-fi-hotspot
http://www.howtogeek.com/112050/how-to-turn-your-windows-8-laptop-into-a-wireless-access-point/
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Using "netsh wlan show drivers" command, I know that my laptop is compatible to create a hostednetwork. I also used the "netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow" to allow the creation of hosted networks. Finally, using the Virtual Router Manager v1.0 (automates the creation of hosted networks I think) I created a hotspot and tried to connect my phone to it.
The problem is that sometimes the phone connects to the hotspot and sometimes it doesn't, but either way, I cannot connect to the internet. I think the issue is the step I supposedly have to do after the mentioned final step, which is to "allow other networks to connect through the computer's internet connection" and selecting Ethernet, but whenever I do that, my actual Ethernet connection becomes "unidentified" and I lose the internet connection from my laptop. Only when I disable to virtual router and "troubleshoot" the ethernet (saying something about the DHCP) does my internet start to work again. Oh and if I skip this step, I don't have access to the internet anyway.
Am I doing something wrong? I don't think I'm missing any steps since I was looking at various articles to help me. I'll post the major ones I looked at below.
Kind of a very long post, but I can't add a tl;dr because everything is essential detail IMO.
http://dottech.org/90970/windows-8-how-to-tether-internet-connection/
http://lifehacker.com/5983161/virtual-router-plus-turns-your-windows-8-pc-into-a-wi-fi-hotspot
http://www.howtogeek.com/112050/how-to-turn-your-windows-8-laptop-into-a-wireless-access-point/
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