Need help routing a wifi signal from a laptop to a PC with a router in between

eetu.kohvakka98

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I want to create the following network using these 3 pieces:

Windows 7 PC
Netgear WNDR4000 router
Windows 10 Laptop

I want to use the laptop to receive a wifi signal from a router at the other end of the house, then run the signal through an ethernet cable to the netgear router's wan port, then connect the windows 7 pc to the router via lan port.

How would I go about doing this? I have attempted to just bridge the wifi and ethernet together on the laptop but that doesn't seem to work..

 
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The function you want is called ICS but it works a little difference under win10 so make sure you find the correct instructions on microsoft site.

You PC is already acting as a router when you run ICS. I would use the netgear as a AP rather than putting a router behind a ICS PC.

ICS mostly works but it is a pain sometimes. The main downside is you have now converted a expensive PC into a dumb router. You can still of course use the pc while ICS runs but if you are not very careful you can affect the performance of the traffic passing through the machine.

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EDIT: My answer is not relevant as I misread original question. Now i understand that OP wants to use laptop as kind of antenna.

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Do you have need for 2 separate networks?
If no just connect your wifi router (one your laptop is connected to) to LAN port of netgear instead of WAN you used.
Because you used WAN port on netgear it treats other network as external (same as internet) so you need to add routing rules on your netgear if you want your laptop (on external network) to see your PC (on internal netgear network).

Also if you will plug it as I wrote to LAN port, you have to disable DHCP server on one of those 2 routers. One router with running DHCP will act as main and will assign IP addresses to whole network.
 
The function you want is called ICS but it works a little difference under win10 so make sure you find the correct instructions on microsoft site.

You PC is already acting as a router when you run ICS. I would use the netgear as a AP rather than putting a router behind a ICS PC.

ICS mostly works but it is a pain sometimes. The main downside is you have now converted a expensive PC into a dumb router. You can still of course use the pc while ICS runs but if you are not very careful you can affect the performance of the traffic passing through the machine.
 
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