How to share wifi connection from a Windows PC?

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How to share wifi connection from a Windows PC?

I have a G5 running 10.5 which can see and browse anything inside my LAN but fails to browse (but can ping!) anything outside the LAN (debugging this weird problem is another thread in these forums). Pending a full solution to this, is it possible for this G5 to share the network connection of another computer (say, a Windows PC) that has full internet connectivity? I figure, since the G5 can see anything inside the LAN, and the WinPC can see anything outside, maybe the G5 can go through the WinPC via network sharing of some sort? I realize it will be slower and is not an actual solution to the problem, but maybe it's a temporary fix. Can this work?

Posted on Oct 22, 2014 3:00 AM

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BDAqua

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Oct 22, 2014 11:17 AM in response to Michael Levin

Ah, just what I was thinking to try, is the PC connected to Internet via Ethernet?

If so it could Internet Share to Computers using Wifi/Airport...

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-internet-connection-sharing#1TC =windows-7

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/set-internet-connection-sharing#1TC=w indows-7

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Michael Levin Author

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Oct 26, 2014 2:11 AM in response to BDAqua

So,

1) does the PC *also* need a Wifi network service, or only the Ethernet connection is sufficient?

2) what do I do on the Mac side to use this PC's shared connection?

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BDAqua

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Oct 26, 2014 10:39 AM in response to Michael Levin

You need 2 interfaces, one to get Internet & another interface to share it out.

I don't know if there's a way in Windows to duplicate an existing interface, I've done it on OSX 10.3/10.4, but of course it really slows down all internet quite a bit.

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