Hello!
I need some help in establishing Internet connection sharing. I've got 2 laptops. Both are WiFi and Ethernet enabled. The 3rd piece of hardware is a WiFi router (I call it a "modem"), which acts as a bridge basically at this point. It's this one here:
HUAWEI wireless home gateway HG 530 (its official title)
The Internet connection to the ISP is a wired PPPoE one. There's RJ-45 cable that enters our apartment from the outside (I assume that there's a major router that serves the whole building with Fiber Optic all the way down to ISP itself, but I'm not sure and it's irrelevant to my issue here). I used to connect that RJ-45 cable into an appropriate jack on one of the laptops and I have a PPPoE W7 connection (called a High Speed Connection in Windows environment). So I just "dial" that Internet connection with username and password provided to me by my ISP. It's a regular Ethernet connection as far as HG530 is concerned. Then I started using laptop's WiFi to reach the HG530. I still use the same Windows PPPoE connection for dialing. It saves me having a cable on the floor which (the cable) was reachable by my cat who likes to chew stuff. So that's what I have right now.
I want to make it clear that it's NOT a WiFi Internet connection (there're zillions of threads all over the Net how to share it -- I wouldn't be asking it AGAIN here!). Internet connection is still a wired one. It's the LINK between the router and one of the laptops that is wireless!!! The router acts as a bridge only. Now we've got to the core of the matter. My wife owns the 2nd laptop and she wants to be able to browse the Internet simultaniously (hope I got it right) with me. It would've been a piece of cake case IF my own laptop had a wired Internet connection as it used to have. Then I would simply connect both laptops with WiFi and that's how I would share the Internet. But then there's a cat problem... That's why I want to connect the laptops with a cable directly without buying an additional piece of hardware (another bridge or a router). And, of course, then to share Internet connection that way. Is it a feasible idea at all???
I need some help in establishing Internet connection sharing. I've got 2 laptops. Both are WiFi and Ethernet enabled. The 3rd piece of hardware is a WiFi router (I call it a "modem"), which acts as a bridge basically at this point. It's this one here:
HUAWEI wireless home gateway HG 530 (its official title)
The Internet connection to the ISP is a wired PPPoE one. There's RJ-45 cable that enters our apartment from the outside (I assume that there's a major router that serves the whole building with Fiber Optic all the way down to ISP itself, but I'm not sure and it's irrelevant to my issue here). I used to connect that RJ-45 cable into an appropriate jack on one of the laptops and I have a PPPoE W7 connection (called a High Speed Connection in Windows environment). So I just "dial" that Internet connection with username and password provided to me by my ISP. It's a regular Ethernet connection as far as HG530 is concerned. Then I started using laptop's WiFi to reach the HG530. I still use the same Windows PPPoE connection for dialing. It saves me having a cable on the floor which (the cable) was reachable by my cat who likes to chew stuff. So that's what I have right now.
I want to make it clear that it's NOT a WiFi Internet connection (there're zillions of threads all over the Net how to share it -- I wouldn't be asking it AGAIN here!). Internet connection is still a wired one. It's the LINK between the router and one of the laptops that is wireless!!! The router acts as a bridge only. Now we've got to the core of the matter. My wife owns the 2nd laptop and she wants to be able to browse the Internet simultaniously (hope I got it right) with me. It would've been a piece of cake case IF my own laptop had a wired Internet connection as it used to have. Then I would simply connect both laptops with WiFi and that's how I would share the Internet. But then there's a cat problem... That's why I want to connect the laptops with a cable directly without buying an additional piece of hardware (another bridge or a router). And, of course, then to share Internet connection that way. Is it a feasible idea at all???