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Davout

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#228751 20-Jan-2018 17:01
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Hi,

 

 

 

The only internet access I have is my building's Wifi, unfortunately many things don't work with it, so I got myself a little router and I am wondering how I could go about sharing my internet connection via my desktop.

 

 

 

That sounds confusing.

 

 

 

Basically, I want to do this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

How do I get this to work.

 

 

 

Desktop is Windows 10 (could change to Linux, if it might make my life easier), Router is TP-Link Archer C50.


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yitz
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  #1944080 20-Jan-2018 17:14
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Go into your wireless adapter properties in Control Panel and enable Internet Connection Sharing selecting your wired adapter from the drop-down menu. Then plug the Ethernet connection from your desktop PC into either the WAN port (should just work, double NAT so may make LAN applications difficult between desktop and other devices) or one of the 4 LAN ports of the router (you will need to first disable the TP-Link's LAN DHCP server). Provided there are no IP conflicts it should work.

 

 

Or buy a travel router.

 

 

Assuming you can not get a wired connection, you should expect neither of the above to be high performance options but at least with the first option your PC will maintain its existing network performance.

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