using usb wireless adapter as an accesspoint
Hi.
Today I was trying to help someone using a USB wireless network adapter to create a wireless accesspoint. This person has an existing internet connection and wants to use it with a mobile device(a smartphone) via a wifi connection.
I've tried to follow the steps outlined in this video on youtube:
So first, bridge the wireless network adapter and the existing LAN connection and subsequently creating an ad-hoc wireless network which should be visible to the mobile device as a wireless accesspoint.
Everything seemed to go ok, except that after creating the ad-hoc wireless network, it was not visible from the mobile device.
Does anyone know what might have gone wrong causing the ad-hoc network not to show up when scanning for available wifi networks on the smartphone?
The USB adapter I was using was a Sitecom N300:
I've tried connecting the adapter to various usb ports at the back of the computer as well as at the front of the computer and I've also made sure I only installed the driver for the adapter and not the additional Sitecom network configuration utility.
greetings and thanks in advance for any feedback, Niek
read more and respond »Posted 5 years ago by sobriquet in Wireless Networking
