My router is in one room while my laptop has wireless connection with it in another room. In the same room I have a PC which doesn't have wireless and only option I can connect it to this router is by cable. Is it possible to use my laptop as access point for PC (for example to connect PC and laptop with LAN cable)?
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Internet Connection Sharing (in Windows) is your answer...
Setting Up Internet Connection Sharing
Windows XP:
Windows Vista/7:
Basically, your laptop with wireless internet will share that connection with your desktop PC through an Ethernet cable running between the two computers...You will need to go into the properties of your wireless internet on your laptop and check Allow other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection. The second check box is optional, but I would check it anyway...
You basically want to use your laptop as a wireless adapter for your PC. The easiest way to accomplish this is to bridge the network connections of your laptop. This will require your laptop to have two network connections (one wired and one wireless) and your PC to have one wired connection. Bridging is easy, simply highlight your LAN connection (wired) and wireless connection in the Network Connections menu of your laptop, right click one of them and select Bridge Connections. It will take a minute or two to create the bridge, but once it is done all you need to do is connect the LAN port (the port that accepts an Ethernet cable) of your laptop to the LAN port of your PC via an Ethernet cable. You should now have network access on both computers.
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