Broadcasting a wireless network using my laptop.

[Sel]

Ive been wondering this for a while, and finally a time has come around when it would be highly useful to be able to do this.

Meanwhile, Ive tried googling, I havent really found anything.

So If anyone could point me in the right direction doing this, if its possible?

[CrAsHOvErRide]

Please be more specific. You can share your laptop through a router or let other computer connect through your laptop to some kind of network. Whatever you want, please be more specific :P

[Sel]

Im trying to use my laptop which has an active internet connection to create a wireless network that my Wii can connect to.

Im not trying to share my laptops files over a network, just make one that another computer, or the Wii can connect to.

Pretty much an ADhoc network or something, I dont know much about this stuff D:

[Limited]

What exactly are you wanting to do with the Wii, make it so it can go online or hack it or something?

[Sel]

What exactly are you wanting to do with the Wii, make it so it can go online or hack it or something?

The wii is capable of connecting to a wireless connection and browsing the internet, Im just trying to figure out how to get my laptop to broadcast one.

[SnaFuBAR]

your laptop is made to receive a wireless signal, not host one. tbh, wireless routers are cheap, just use one of those.

[-Ranger-]

To host a wireless network on your laptop you need to setup a 'ad-hoc' in your laptop wireless settings.
Its easy to do.

If your running XP, go to the "view wireless networks" window click the "Setup a wireless network".

http://www.halomf.org/images2/adhoc.jpg

[Amit]

Well first of all, you're gonna need an ethernet connection sending information directing into the laptop. Once that's done, you need to create a wireless ad-hoc network. I'm not quite sure all the steps for XP but Vista is a cinch. I saw it on CNET TV and tried to replicate it usning a Lenovo thinkpad and a Toshiba A200 but wansn't very sucessful. The thinkpad runs XP and the Toshiba runs Vista. I tried them both ways with similar steps and got the Toshiba host variant partially working. The Thinkpad could connect to the Toshiba and share files but not connect to the internet through it. Going the other way around is too damn hard.

[Sel]

Thanks for your help, I figured it out.