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jimafm   02-12-2012 at 05:09:34 PM

I live near several public hit spots. A geek told me I could configure my PC (XP) or laptop (Win 7) to act as a wifi receiver and connect that to my wireless router to distribute the Internet connection to my Blue-ray and other laptops. I can't figure out the correct steps to make it work. Anyone have a step-by-step guide to how this is done?

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Realbeast   02-12-2012 at 09:50:45 PM

You can bridge the network connections either in Windows 7 or Windows XP between the hot spot adapter and the LAN wireless adapter.

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jimafm   02-27-2012 at 07:35:06 PM

Realbeast wrote :

You can bridge the network connections either in Windows 7 or Windows XP between the hot spot adapter and the LAN wireless adapter.




Thanks. I have been told that by a geek at Best Buy, and he made it sound easy. However, I have been unable to figure out how to do it in Win XP or in Win 7. Do you know where I can get a step-by-step for this? I'm an electronics expert, but have limited knowledge when it comes to computers.

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jimafm   02-27-2012 at 07:41:30 PM

What if i just buy a repeater and connect it to the input of my wireless router via the LAN ports? Then I would have a strong signal without tyeing up any computers and be able to feed my Blueray. Will that work?

Also, am I at risk by using this Public Hot Spot? I would hope that my WEP router provides the necessary security, correct?

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Realbeast   02-27-2012 at 11:49:49 PM
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jimafm wrote :

Thanks. I have been told that by a geek at Best Buy, and he made it sound easy. However, I have been unable to figure out how to do it in Win XP or in Win 7. Do you know where I can get a step-by-step for this? I'm an electronics expert, but have limited knowledge when it comes to computers.



It is very very easy to do in Windows 7: http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-7/ [...] windows-7/

Here is a guide to bridges in XP: http://www.microsoft.com/resources [...] x?mfr=true


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Realbeast   02-27-2012 at 11:51:53 PM

jimafm wrote :

What if i just buy a repeater and connect it to the input of my wireless router via the LAN ports? Then I would have a strong signal without tyeing up any computers and be able to feed my Blueray. Will that work?

Also, am I at risk by using this Public Hot Spot? I would hope that my WEP router provides the necessary security, correct?


I don't think that the repeater will work.

If you bridge a public network to an internal private network, you need to treat the internal network as public.

WEP is not very secure, WPA/WPA2 would be preferred.

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jimafm   03-08-2012 at 05:09:41 AM

Thanks a lot. It works great!

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