Possible to redirect wifi?

[keith007]

Im sharing wifi with people but I can only access the net via a USB adaptor and antenna... Can I then attach a device and send my roommate the signal?

Thanks.

[tokenuser]

So the external antennae method worked? Cool.

With XP and Vista you could turnon "Internet Connection Sharing" and allow your room mate to piggy back off your signal ... especially since you still have the internal wfi adapter toact as their access point.

If this is your goal though, would it be better to set up a Wireless Repeater.

Something like this (http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1130267578138&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper).

If you had said you wanted to share the connection to begin with, I would have suggested this in the first place.

[boldfire]

Yeah what Tokenuser said is what I would suggest also. A repeater is the neater and more practical way to 'bounce'/'repeat' the wireless but ICS will work as well.

Just bear in mind with ICS it means your computer has to be on for him to connect, which is why I think it's perhaps a little impractical for your needs.

[keith007]

Ya I bought an IPTime usb wifi antenna put it near my window ;)

Now I understand what you guys are saying but Im using windows and my friend is using Mac....

Is it easy to set up on a mac?
Ive never used a mac but do use linux now and then.

[bmwadd1ct]

i used to set it up a while back so i could hookup my xbox and get some free online games going and im pretty sure to use ICS your friend would have to connect to you via ethernet cable. try that and see what happens.

i dont think it should be too hard to setup on mac, cuz its just network protocol. then again, macs hate windows.......

[tokenuser]

1. Macs do not hate windows. I have a Windows based laptop and a Macbook sitting in front of me right now happily networked together ... not doing ICS, but living happily together on the same network. It was a lot harder in the past, but OS X with its underlying BSD Unix heritage made sharing a lot easier.

2. ICS does not need hard wired connections. What is needed is for the host computer to have two network cards. In this case, since an external card is being used for the Wifi access, then internal wifi card is free, as is the local ethernet port. ICS bridges the internal wifi to the external one.

Eitherway, in this case ICS is not the best solution, the Wifi Extender is a much better solution as it does not require the host computer to be left on.

[bmwadd1ct]

2. ICS does not need hard wired connections. What is needed is for the host computer to have two network cards. In this case, since an external card is being used for the Wifi access, then internal wifi card is free, as is the local ethernet port. ICS bridges the internal wifi to the external one.

Eitherway, in this case ICS is not the best solution, the Wifi Extender is a much better solution as it does not require the host computer to be left on.

uhh, what are u trying to say? that someone can access his ICS enabled laptop wirelessly? that would be wrong. If your trying to say that he doesnt need to be hardwired to a router to enable ICS than I agree, it was not the point i was making.

[tokenuser]

uhh, what are u trying to say? that someone can access his ICS enabled laptop wirelessly? that would be wrong. If your trying to say that he doesnt need to be hardwired to a router to enable ICS than I agree, it was not the point i was making.Yes. Someone can access his ICS enabled laptop wirelessly. That is the whole point. ICS is briding his internal wifi to his external wifi.

His room mate connects to his internal wifi -> ICS bridges to external wifi -> he has access via external wifi.

Whats so hard to understand?