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Originally Posted by MikeSty
Wait, how is the desktop supposed to receive the wireless signal?
Edit: OOH, I get it now. His router is sending wirelessly to your laptop, which you want to hardwire to your desktop.
EDIT 2: And then through your own wired router? Yeah, you need to put the signal through WAN.
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I just want to bridge the connection through the laptop to the desktop.
The laptop receives the signal from his router. I want to patch that signal through to the desktop.
The peices I have to work with are listed above.
Every time I try to create a network bridge between the wireless NIC and wired NIC on the laptop, XP bridges the connection, but then the wireless connecton has an X through it.
I don't have a crossover cable, so I can't feed a straight connection between the two. Plugging my laptops nic into my routers WAN port would need a crossover cable, wouldn't it?
I can turn of DHCP on my router, and/or change the assigned IP ranges of the connected machines and router so my router does not occupy IP's that my neighbors router has assigned.
So how can I use the laptop to make a network bridge to feed connectivity to the desktop?