3G Internet Connection Sharing Over WiFi On Windows XP
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Thanks to my honey for lending me her Windows XP-based laptop. If not for her, this post would not be possible. As promised, I am going to share with you today a step by step procedure on how to share your 3G internet connection over wifi using the Internet Connection Sharing feature on Windows XP SP2. Yuga has a similar post but he uses Vista, so I thought, since XP is still the dominant OS in the market, why not make one for XP too. So here it is.
Hardware Requirements:
- Laptop or Desktop with WiFi card. Most laptops and netbooks already have WiFi built-in. This PC will act as the host PC that will share its 3G internet connection.
- 3G modem connected on your PC’s USB port. For this article, I used Huawei E220 on Sun Broadband Wireless.
- Another laptop, WiFi-enabled desktop, or any other wifi-enabled device such as the iPhone, PSP, or iPod touch. In my previous experiments, my MacBook was able to successfully connect to my honey’s ad hoc network.
Now that you have the hardware ready, it’s time to get your hands dirty (well, not really. It is as easy as 1-2-3):
- Enable Internet Connection Sharing. To do that, go to Network Connections and locate your 3G internet connection’s dialer. Right click and select properties. From the properties window, select the Advanced tab. Tick the check box for to enable Internet Connection Sharing. Select Wireless Network Connection to enable sharing via WiFi.
- Create a wireless computer-to-computer network (also known as ad-hoc network). At the taskbar, right click on your the Wireless Network Connection icon. A window opens to let you choose a wireless network. On the left side of the window, click on the “Change advanced settings” link. You will be directed to the Wireless Network Connection Properties window. On this window, click the Wireless Network tab. Click the Add button to create a new wireless network. Make sure you tick the check box at the lower left side of the window to make your new
wireless network an ad hoc (computer-to-computer) network. Adding network security protocols are optional but recommended.
- And that’s it! Now go get another PC, Mac, PSP, iPhone, iPod touch, or whatever, and connect to the new ad hoc network you just created. On Windows XP, you’ll know you have successfully connected when you see something like this:
There you have it. Everytime you connect to your Smart Bro, Globe Broadband Tattoo (formerly Globe Visibility), or Sun Broadband Wireless, any device that accesses your ad hoc network will have access to the internet as well. If you found this post helpful, subscribe to Geek and Money using your favorite RSS reader or via e-mail. Thanks! Happy Internet Sharing! 
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Jersy said:
Hi Sonn,
You’ve got an informative post here about Internet sharing. Thanks for this useful manual!
March 11th, 2009 at 3:06 am -
SoNn said:
Hello beautiful! finally nag-comment ka dito sa blog ko. hihi.
March 11th, 2009 at 3:46 am -
Miles said:
hi! interested ako to find out if its possible to connect my sunbroadband modem to my PC ( windows xp) then meron kc akong laptop (2nd unit) na gusto ko rin sana i-connect sa internet simultaneously sabay sa PC ko. Usually kc nag oonline games ako sa PC, since mas mataas video card ko dun, then yung laptop naman ginagamit ng sister ko. Meron po ba kayo alam pano to connect my Linksys WRT54G wireless router? Thanks!
March 17th, 2009 at 8:31 pm -
SoNn said:
Hello Miles! Thanks for visiting my blog..U can use Internet Connection Sharing…
March 18th, 2009 at 9:19 am -
Miko said:
I just want to add that there are applications that also let you share you internet 3G connection directly from the phone. One of them is joikuspot, but it is not free. You have to shell out a few bucks for a little convinience…
March 20th, 2009 at 2:34 am -
SoNn said:
Hi Miko! Thanks for the visit. And yep, I’ve heard of Joikuspot. I’m okay with what I know though, and I don’t have to shell out anything for it. My two cents.
March 20th, 2009 at 10:18 am -
ndagi said:
thank you so much for this useful posts. youve been incredibly helpful with this.
best regardsMarch 30th, 2009 at 7:06 am -
SoNn said:
Hi ndagi! Thank you for visiting my blog. It is an honor to have been of help to you.
March 30th, 2009 at 1:55 pm -
Pavel said:
Didn’t work for me. Came to my parents place and tried to do the trick but as soon as I connect with my mac it gets a weird IP address and internet sharing is not working.
April 4th, 2009 at 2:35 pm -
SoNn said:
Hi Pavel, thank you for visiting my blog. Have you tried Internet Sharing with other devices?
April 4th, 2009 at 3:01 pm -
Pavel said:
Unfortunately I don’t have any other wifi device to check.
April 5th, 2009 at 2:53 am -
kyle said:
Yea… same thing as pavel… I connected to the adhoc network and everything but the internet is still not working on my itouch…
April 15th, 2009 at 9:00 pm -
SoNn said:
@kyle - thanks for visiting.
@Pavel, @kyle - please verify how your devices obtain their IP addresses. Based on experience, it would be best to set your host PC’s IP address manually and set your wifi devices to obtain their IPs automatically. Let me know if that would work for you. It did for me. April 15th, 2009 at 9:52 pm -
SoNn said:
@kyle - thanks for visiting.
@Pavel, @kyle - please verify how your devices obtain their IP addresses. Based on experience, it would be best to set your host PC’s IP address manually and set your wifi devices to obtain their IPs automatically. Let me know if that would work for you. It did for me. April 15th, 2009 at 9:52 pm -
Pavel said:
Thanks for the advice - will try that.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:34 am -
Putchi said:
i tried this already, and the Iphone detected a wireless network, but you need to put WEP. I dont know where to get the WEP. Please advised.. thanks
May 6th, 2009 at 5:05 pm -
SoNn said:
Hi Putchi! Thanks for the visit. Did you set your wireless network to create a network key (WEP) automatically? If so, you should manually set a network key, which you will input on the iPhone when you connect to your wireless network. I hope this helps.
May 6th, 2009 at 11:24 pm -
pUsa said:
this is great. very helpful. so kahit d na pla gumamit ng wireless router. ^_^
May 9th, 2009 at 1:38 am -
jon said:
i’m not sure why it’s not working for me. I did follow all the instructions/settings. I’m not sure if there are issues coz i’m using a business laptop with like a gazillion enabled securities .
May 10th, 2009 at 4:01 am -
GioSpike said:
I have an MSI Wind U100, Asus EEE PC 1000H and Sun Wireless Broadband Postpaid. I followed the steps and got both netbooks connected wirelessly. I even turned off Windows firewall and the anti-virus software. Here’s the result:
1. I can browse the Internet on the notebook directly connected to the Sun 3G modem. I can’t browse on the other notebook sharing the Internet connection wirelessly.
2. I did a ping command on both netbooks IP addresses to see if they are connected. Ping was successful.
3. I was able to browse the other netbook’s folders and open files (by enabling Folder Sharing) wirelessly.It’s only the Internet browsing on the other notebook that is not working.
May 26th, 2009 at 7:51 am -
SoNn said:
HI Henry! Thank your for visiting my blog. About your problem, try to make your wireless network’s IP address similar to that of Sun’s. Ex: If your Sun Broadband’s IP is 10.4.14.163, then set your wireless network’s IP to 10.4.14.xxx. Let me know if this works.
May 26th, 2009 at 11:03 am -
JustinStacey said:
This doesn’t work (:
May 27th, 2009 at 12:36 pm -
SoNn said:
@Justin - works for me.
anyway thanks for the visit.May 30th, 2009 at 3:36 am -
Mavie said:
I can connect to the adhoc with the other PC but not to the internet, please help. Thanks.
June 1st, 2009 at 7:26 am -
SoNn said:
Hi Mavie, thank you for visiting. Please check the IP address of your internet provider. Make the IP of your wireless network similar to that of your internet connection. That should do the trick. I hope this helps.
June 2nd, 2009 at 12:29 am -
OWen said:
Hi guys ask ko lang why walang internet connection sharing sakin sa advanced tab? All I see is windows firewall. please help me. Let me know asap. Thanks!
June 8th, 2009 at 8:39 pm -
seiko said:
Hi SoNn, I encountered the similar problem as the others. May be you can share your settings on the IP, netmask, default gateway and DNS of your host PC and client PC. Thank you.
June 16th, 2009 at 9:27 am -
SoNn said:
@seiko - Thanks for the visit. I will come up with a post that will address the issues you encountered soon.
June 18th, 2009 at 2:58 pm -
SoNn said:
Hi Owen, thanks for the visit. It must have something to do with your OS. Is it XP Pro SP2?
June 18th, 2009 at 3:40 pm -
bursky said:
hi SoNn! found your site through yugatech. i set-up it right, i think. the problem is my device (E63) doesn’t see my adhoc network.
my laptop sees it (anak ng teteng naman kung hindi diba?) but my phone doesn’t. help! June 18th, 2009 at 8:19 pm -
francis Castell said:
Thank you for the tutorial! I would like to share my experience with this.
I tried this using a windows 7 laptop as the one directly connected to the 3g modem. I was able to connect a second laptop (with windows xp) through the ad hoc network, as was able to surf the internet.I then tried to connect my mobile phone and it was able to detect and connect to the ad hoc network, but cannot able to surf the internet.
Tried the one for Mac (which if I may add, is soooo much simpler). Everything works GREAT! Both the Windows XP laptop and my mobile phone was able to connect through the ad hoc and surf the internet.
June 21st, 2009 at 6:04 am
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