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AT&T 8525 Internet Sharing to Wireless Router?

I am getting ready to head on vacation and I want to use my 8525 as my "Gateway" as there will be 5 of us with laptops and I want to share my 3G connection so here is what I did. I connect my 8525 to my Laptop via usb, I start internet sharing on the 8525 and in my laptop (vista) under network connections I see Local Area Connection 6, remote NDIS based Internet Sharing Device. I right click this connection and select Sharing, and enable internet connection sharing on it. Then what I did was took my router (linksys) and disabled dhcp, but enabled wireless and didnt set any wep or wpa. I connect from my laptop to a port on the router (not the internet port) and then goto another laptop to see if I have internet. I dont, I can see the ssid, I can connect but I do not have internet access. Should I use a crossover cable? What do I have to do so that all of us can have internet thru my phone? Oh, my laptop does have internet (from the usb connection on the phone). I tried to setup the router so that dhcp was enabled, but then I kept getting an ip conflict error, so we cant do that. Also I am not getting an ip on the wireless, it has an ip of like 169.254.177.12.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Jim

There a software which you can install on 8525 and turn it into a wifi internet sharing but I don't know if it capable of handing up to 5 laptops. You might be able to use this software and get a router with some custom firmware which allow bridging then set it up to have router access the internet from 8525 wifi and share it among the 5 laptops but I am not sure if you could bridging and do wifi AP on the same router if not then you'll probably need to have 2 router one to bridge from 8525 wifi and then connect cable to another router that will be an AP for the laptops.
That would be my best guess of doing this unless one of the laptop can do AP via wifi when 8525 is plugged into usb slot.
Bill

Sending Wireless Signal FROM Laptop to second wired wireless router?

You see, my laptop can see my wireless signal but my PDA can't when in the same room as my laptop.
I have two routers (and wiring the second router from the first and using it as an access point isn't an option).
Is there any way I can send the wireless signal from my laptop obtained from the parent router to the other wireless router (through an ethernet cable) and then connect my PDA to the second router as an access point?
Thanks,

You should be able to just bridge the connections in windows.

So if I attach a router with no internet connection to my laptop (which has a wireless connection from a second router) via an ethernet cable, I should be able to detect it in My Network Places as a LAN connection and then bridge the connection with the wireless signal my laptop gets, which would then allow the router to transmit that signal wirelessly as it would if I connected it directly via an ethernet cable to the parent router and used it as an access point?
I just feel like there's too much magic behinds the scenes that Windows needs to do for that to work out. I'd be super happy if that works though, I'll try it when I get home!

I tried connecting the router from the LAN and WAN port and bridging my wireless connection with the LAN connection from the router connected to my laptop. In both cases (through LAN and WAN ports on the wired router), I was not able to connect to the original wireless signal after I bridged the connections.

Google Cast problem on ethernet

Hi everybody,
A week ago I could cast from my phone to Shield TV while it was connected to ethernet.
But now it's not working anymore.
I tried to reboot, reconnect, factory settings etc but nothing works.
On WiFi it works fine.
I hope anybody can help me througth this because connecting to the ethernet is so much better.
Thanks in advance

Do you have a router setting like "set AP isolated"? That would stop you from communicating between clients.

cookiehead2 said:
Do you have a router setting like "set AP isolated"? That would stop you from communicating between clients.
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I just checked. It was disabled.

Is your WiFi Access Point setup in bridge mode or router mode? If router mode, wireless devices are living in their own network subnet and are not in the same subnet as your ethernet devices so a wireless device won't see a Chromecast device (SATV) that is connected via ethernet and vise-versa. Set it to bridge mode and that should clear things up.

Chromecast not finding shield when on LAN

Hi,
I have the following problem:
My LAN has a router and two APs, the router is a fritz box (IP 192.168.178.1), the APs are a Netgear R6400 v2 running dd-wrt (IP 192.168.178.2) and an older TP-Link on dd-wrt (IP 192.167.178.3).
From my cell (Xiaomi mi 9) I can stream via chromecast thje Shield as long as the Shield is only connected by WLAN to my AP. It doesn't matter to which of my APs my cell is connected, it doesn't need to be the same AP as the one to which the shield is connected.
Once I turn on LAN on the Shield (which then connects to the router), chromecast on the cell doesn't see the Shield anymore.
When connected to the LAN, the shield has IP 192.168.178.53, and my cell has IP 192.168.178.70.
From the computer on which I am typing this post, I can ping all of these 4 devices.
Btw, there is another device, a Panasonic reciever, connected to the LAN, and I can access it from my cell, so I assume that the problem actually comes from the Shield.
Any ideas how I can fix this, making chromecast work even when the Shield is connected by LAN?

This is strange now, I have deactivated the chromecast app (apps/system apps), cleared cache and data, activated it again and restarted the Shield - and now it is working again.

PSA: There is a great (new?) option in Android 12 Developer option to get Wi-Fi debugging information; it's called "Enable Wi-Fi Verbose Logging = ON"

PSA:
There is a great (new?) option in Android 12 Developer option to get Wi-Fi debugging information.
It's called "Enable Wi-Fi Verbose Logging = ON"
I needed this option because I needed to debug the following scenario:
My upstairs desktop PC has no Wi-Fi card
So I flashed an old WRT54Gv8.1 router to dd-wrt
I then connected a CAT5 cable from the upstairs desktop RJ45 port to on of the four LAN ports of that dd-wrt router
Once I did that, I was able to log into the dd-wrt from the upstairs desktop PC to set up a wireless bridge to the downstairs router AP.
I first set that dd-wrt router to "wireless client bridge" mode
I then ran a dd-wrt "site survey" which found my 2.4GHz home router AP downstairs
I pressed the dd-wrt "join" button to wirelessly bridge to that downstairs 2.4GHz AP
Since it had encryption, I duplicated the 2.4Ghz home router SSID's authentication stuff
But I was initially having connection problems to the downstairs Netgear N router 2.4GHz access point...
At first I couldn't figure out why it didn't work (which is where the "Enable Wi-Fi Verbose Logging" debugging came in handy.
But after a few tests, I was able to get it to work by adding a powerful additional access point downstairs.
That powerful additional access point downstairs was a Ubiquti Rocket M2 radio I just happened to have lying around unused.
This gave me a LOT of networking power!
Particularly for my weak Android phone wi-fi connection!
By plugging the Rocket M2 into the downstairs router...
That instantly added another Wi-Fi access point downstairs
Which happened to be a far more powerful transmit power
And more importantly, it has far better receiver sensitivity
Overall, that connects the upstairs PC (which doesn't have Wi-Fi) via it's Ethernet port to the dd-wrt router which is then wirelessly bridged to the downstairs home router 2.4GHz SSID access point.
And, I can connect my Android phone when it's upstairs or downstairs to that powerful and sensitive new 2.4GHz access point.
The upstairs PC gets its Internet through the dd-wrt-to-downstairs-Rocket M2 AP client bridge
The Android phone upstairs can also connect wirelessly to that downstairs Rocket M2 access point
But the verbose wireless option showed me that the Android signal level isn't as good as it can be (given the weak WiFi of the Android phone).
But then I hit upon an idea...
... which gives the phone the PERFECT wi-fi connection upstairs!
Once I had the dd-wrt working in "Client Bridge Mode"/
I slightly modified the dd-wrt settings
I simply changed the dd-wrt "Wireless Client Bridge" selection to a wireless "Bridge Repeater"
And then I created a "virtual" SSID for that new wireless bridge repeater
Voila!
That accomplishes three things which pretty much make the entire setup almost perfect.
In fact, it's the best of all worlds when it works.
I converted the upstairs PC with only Ethernet, to a powerful Wi-Fi connection
At the same time, I added a "virtual access point" upstairs for the Android phone to connect to
Both the Android phone (when upstairs) & the upstairs PC have strong signal to the downstairs AP
And, best of all, when I go downstairs, the Android phone can still have strong signal because the phone can connect to the wireless client bridge that is downstairs wired to the home router (or it can connect to the home router original 2.4GHz & 5GHz access points).
It's perfect! (when it works).
And when it didn't work - I used the Android 12 Developer options "Wi-Fi verbose logging" to catch error messages.
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