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Hi, guys, I have a big issue, please help.
Situation: I have 3 laptops, and I want to make a wireless access point (no internet required), just to simulate a LAN network for family play. All laptops are HP, all are using windows 8.1.
I set up the access point on one of the laptops (laptop1) using the 'netsh' command, and the hotspot is on and working. I could connect to the hotspot with laptop2, but can't connect with laptop3. Laptop3 is able to connect to wireless router (wich provides the internet), but can't connect to the newly created hotspot. It takes a very long time to "checking network requirements", then "connecting to the network takes longer than usual", then "can't connect to this network". I repeat: the laptop2 connected without problems, and laptop3 can also connect to any other wireless networks. Any ideeas what to check? Maybe some services have been disabled earlier, or any commands to verify the situation? i did ipconfig /all, the adapter is there but is obviously disconnected.
Thanks in advance any suggestions (perhaps any other way to simulate a LAN connection for older games to see it, i'm talking about Battlefield 1942, that is what i wish to play in cooperative mode)

NOTE: before you ask me why i need this instead of just using the router, well, the router is not mine, it's my neighbour's, i dont have access to configure it, he's just sharing internet with me.
 
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I can't answer your specific question. However I will suggest a solution that may work.

Buy an inexpensive router and set it up for your home network. No internet is required for the router to work, it is easy to configure and no specific computer is required to be in use for the network to operate. Just set it to a channel away from the channel on the router than is providing your internet service. There is no need to spend a great deal of money on a router as pretty much any 300N router should be fast enough for a light weight home network. But spending a bit more on a dual band router may be worth it.
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I can't answer your specific question. However I will suggest a solution that may work.

Buy an inexpensive router and set it up for your home network. No internet is required for the router to work, it is easy to configure and no specific computer is required to be in use for the network to operate. Just set it to a channel away from the channel on the router than is providing your internet service. There is no need to spend a great deal of money on a router as pretty much any 300N router should be fast enough for a light weight home network. But spending a bit more on a dual band router may be worth it.
 
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Thanks, Pooneil, of course i thought of that, but I was thinking why buy another piece of hardware with cables and such when I (could) have a built-in solution. You know with 100 children crawling in the house every surplus of cable and power supply and whatnot that comes with hardwares is unwanted. But of course, in the end this is what i will do, thanks for the suggestion. I solved my specific problem as well, hosting a private server and playing through the internet, but it's just curious and weird that with windows systems is easier to get out to the net and back rather than make your inner local area network, just weird...
 
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Not all that weird. Stock desktop Windows just really isn't designed to run as a wireless router. It has to be tricked into doing that job.
 
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Ok, I understand that, but the reason I really started this post was: why can I connect to one specific network ( internet provider) and in the same time I can not conect to the other, wich is local? Are there any ports to be open, what am I missing here? I wanted to find out that "trick" you mentioned about :)
Anyway, thanks for your interest and answers, Pooneil.

 
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