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I have 2 wireless network adaptors for my laptop, an internal and an external.

the Wi-Fi I use is in the neighbor's house (we split the bill) and I was wondering if there's a way to receive the signal through me external adapter and re-broadcast it through me internal adapter as to increase the connectivity of the devices around my home (and so we don't have to have all of the Wi-Fi enabled devices on one side of the house).

If this is possible could you please provide step by step instructions on how I would go about doing this. I am Okay with setting static ip's if that is required.

PS: I'm running windows 10
I would like to receive from the external and broadcast from the internal while still being able to use the connection on my laptop, if that's not possible i could use another laptop.
the external adapter supports SoftAp
 
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Make sure both adapters have the latest drivers. These are provided by the manufacturer of the specific cards, not the chip manufacturers. For example, my external adapter is manufactured by Linksys but the chip inside is a Realtek. Linksys would provide the driver.
Remove your external adapter for now. Follow the steps on this page, but between step 3 and 4 plug your external adapter back in and use it instead of your ethernet connection as in the guide.
http://www.redmondpie.com/create-ad-hoc-wifi-hotspot-in-windows-10-heres-how/

Report back if you have any issues, but you should be set from there. Again though, I can't promise how well it will work. This isn't a widely used feature, and some manufacturers disallow it completely.
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Ultimate_Dylan

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My internal Adapter is a Qualcomm Atheros AR956x Wireless Network Adapter
My external adapter is a Realtek RTL8192CU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB 2.0 Network Adapter

according to the properties section of each device
 
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Atheros cards have some basic support for ICS, but I can't guarantee how well it will work. Realtek cards have crap for support for anything but the most basic features.
I'll see about building you a custom guide for setting up for re-transmitting for your specific cards. It'll have to be using the external (realtek) to connect to the router and the internal (atheros) for ICS.
 
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I would Appreciate this very much, this is the configuration i was going for too,
 
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ICS is almost a hack, it works mostly ok but it is a old feature that was designed to allow computers to share a dialup modem. It is extremely basic in function.

The largest issue is that you have to be very careful about using the machine you are running it on for much else. If you get too much load it will disrupt the network traffic for the other machines attempting to use the ics. You have in effect made you expensive computer into a cheap repeater.

You may be better off getting some form of repeater....one that mound external to your house from someone like ubiquiti or engenius would be optimum.
 
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Make sure both adapters have the latest drivers. These are provided by the manufacturer of the specific cards, not the chip manufacturers. For example, my external adapter is manufactured by Linksys but the chip inside is a Realtek. Linksys would provide the driver.
Remove your external adapter for now. Follow the steps on this page, but between step 3 and 4 plug your external adapter back in and use it instead of your ethernet connection as in the guide.
http://www.redmondpie.com/create-ad-hoc-wifi-hotspot-in-windows-10-heres-how/

Report back if you have any issues, but you should be set from there. Again though, I can't promise how well it will work. This isn't a widely used feature, and some manufacturers disallow it completely.
And bill, why buy more hardware if what he has already will work? If it doesn't work then yes, it will probably be better to get a repeater.
 
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I like to use my computer for computer stuff. Obviously you have never run ICS on a computer that you say run a game program on. ICS will not get enough cpu and actually cause the sessions to drop in certain situations. Even javascritps in web pages will cause spikes in the performance for machines using the connection.

Just because you CAN do something is not always the best reason to do it.
 
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Let me clarify then:
The best use of this setup would be to use the computer as a repeater while it is NOT otherwise being used. Using this setup would be best for, say you want to connect to a router from your cheap phone, but it can't see the router because it sucks. The router can be seen from the USB adapter, but the adapter is clearly not going to work on the phone.
There are plenty of scenarios where this may be the best solution and you don't want to buy dedicated hardware for it.
 
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