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Hello all,
Soon I'll have to go to a customer's site and I know they'll give me one Wifi password to connect one device into their Internet capable network.
Usually I connect my laptop (so I can get y e-mails, Skype and check help from forums and from the online resources), but all the guys that will come with me won't have internet connection (electricians and mechanic engineers).
I've thought on using a software that would allow me to share my wifi internet connection using my latop as a hotspot for free.
CUSTOMER WIFI NETWORK <-> LAPTOP <-> somehow the laptop should be able to start a hosted network.
The idea here would be to use a program that would use the wifi connection on my latop to share it using the same wifi card and at the same time, giving internet connection to the same laptop.
Do you know of any free tool that would do this?
I've tried:
It seemed the hosted network could not get started...
Any hint? I would not mess the laptop wifi to the pont of render it useless... 
As always thank you in advance!
modified 31-Mar-15 7:04am.
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No idea if you can do this but:
If I where in your position I'd connect my phone (nokia lumia 800).
It has this functionality built in.
K the connection speed might suffer a bit but...
Other than that I wouldn't directly know.
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sorry about bad formatting
enters seem to get lost
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Tom
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Not mine... as far as I know Samsung Galaxy S4 can't do that... 
I don't want to share my 4G connection, I want to share the already hooked Wifi connection which is what is not possible...
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Yes, it can share the 3G or 4G data connection, which is as easy as what can be seen in the youtube link you've attached, but I'm not interested on that, I want to share the WIFI signal:
your links suggest:
3/4G --> TETHERING ON > HOTSPOT ACTIVE < wifi clients ready to connect
what I want is:
AVAILABLE WIFI with only one possible user protected by code --> MY LAPTOP/PHONE CONNECTED TO IT > HOTSPOT ACTIVE < wifi clients ready to connect
It is different...
In my Galaxy S4 If I activate the hotspot the WIFI gets automatically disconnected as the network card is not capable to be working as client and as server at the same time...
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Joan Murt wrote: In my Galaxy S4 If I activate the hotspot the WIFI gets automatically disconnected as the network card is not capable to be working as client and as server at the same time...
Really?
Must admit I haven't tested it on my phone, the airplane mode trick was to force my phone to use the Wifi even if it had bad connection ( I was on vacation and the phone decides if the G3 signal is better than it goes with that, and that would have cost me a lot).
Well then I'm out of idea's sorry.
Tom
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I also have no idea if this would work, but I do know that an ex-colleague of mine bought a Mobile Wi-Fi unit on a pay-as-you-go arrangement from a mobile phone supplier (in his case the red logo'd one beginning with V). He could connect up to 5 devices and several of us shared it on a similar set up to your requirements
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Yep, that would work, but these aren't the sharing options I'm looking for[^]...
I want to share the same wifi I got access into... the problem I'll have is that the wifi network is well protected and is giving access only to one device at once.
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You can setup your laptop to serve as a network bridge which connects the data from your actual Wifi adapter to a virtual adapter.
The net effect is that:
(a) you have access to the site wifi via the network name and password they supply.
(b) your colleagues have access to the net via the virtual adapter you create and the wifi password you set.
This works out-of-the-box with a Win7Pro machine, simply using a few cmd-prompt commands.
Here's an MSDN page on the topic: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd815243%28v=vs.85%29.aspx[^]
And here's a StackOverflow question with examples of use:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23168152/use-netsh-wlan-set-hostednetwork-to-create-a-wifi-hotspot-and-the-authenti[^] (see the answer by Sam for the command required to created the hosted network)
I've used the technique to make an old laptop function as a wifi repeater - albeit by connecting the end-device (the laptop I'm using) to the network that the repeater laptop creates.
TLDR;
- To create, type: netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=hotspotname key=123456789
- To start, type: netsh wlan start hostednetwork
- To stop, type: netsh wlan stop hostednetwork
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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Yes, that is what I saw the last time but it stopped working... 
Probably I did something wrong... 
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Ride a green bike again (7)
Good luck
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That's clever! 
RECYCLE
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OriginalGriff wrote: That's clever!
Well yeah..it's me  
Well done.
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Oh, look! Your clue has also gone green. 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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We'd better recycle his rep points then!
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Recycle is almost the same as plagiarism, except it isn't. You instead try and hide the original as best you can 
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Kenneth Haugland wrote: You instead try and hide the original as best you can
Or simply insist on what is yours is the original. And perhaps that explains his display name - "Original"Griff.
--EDIT:
Oops, the "joke" icon. 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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I often wondered about recycled toilet paper. I hope they don't mean that literally
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If you file the serial numbers off his rep points, no-one will know where they came from!
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Is this comment by a RecycledGriff
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...I got some mutton over the weekend, so I just finished putting a Mutton Rogan Josh in the slow cooker, where it will sit and tenderise for the next eight hours.
But that means the whole house smells of curry, and that means my tummy is rumbling, and my mouth is watering. And I can't eat it until tonight...
So...what does your office smell of / like?
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I don't know... But I'm going to break into your house. You've got Mutton Rogan Josh, and you didn't invite anybody? 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Well, I will have in 8 hours or so...
If I'd known you were in the area, I'd have invited you!
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Don't mean to say. But your second paragraph, I felt it right in my heart. To express it, have a +1. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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The mutton is Halal, so it wouldn't have been a problem for you either.
(Getting mutton round here is hard enough - lamb is simple - you can only get it Halal)
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