I'm trying to stream my desktop to my Nexus 7 throughout the house. My problem is that I do not have a wireless access point in the house. I do not want to spend the money for one either.
I thought I might create a tablet to computer connection. I have an Alfa usb card which connects to the internet, would it be possible to use another usb card on the same computer for the tablet / computer connection, while still being connected to the internet with the first alfa card?
With a router is it possible to receive a wireless signal and also out put a wireless signal?
With two wireless usb adapters is it possible to be connected to two networks simultaneously in windows 7
Technically I was easily able to produce a mobile hotspot with my tablet that I connected to with my computer. This worked although I was not able to use the internet(I only have 1 adapter right now) and also I only did this because I couldn't get my tablet to pick up an adhoc network created by Win7
I guess the question is.. can I connect to the internet via wifi and at the same time connect to a tablet's mobile hotspot with a different wifi adapter.
The alternative questions would be.
1. Can I connect to the internet via wifi and at the same time create an adhoc network with a different wifi adapter for my tablet to connect.
2. Can I use a router to connect to the internet via wifi and also to provide a local wifi AP that my tablet can connect to, receiving and sending packets to both the computer and the internet ? :/
What is the preferred way to do this if the internet access point is not within range of normal devices?
I'm very sorry about the low quality of this post. I know what I want to achieve but I know absolutely nothing about routers, adapters and networking in general. Any help is very appreciated.
Hi. Here are some answers I have found after searching for the past week.
Windows has a nice user friendly piece of software called Connectify which allows the creation of a non ad-hoc access point. I believe the software also allows you to use the same wireless card to connect to the Internet.
But since I use Linux I needed another solution.
I found hostapd, which is another piece of software which can create a access point from just a wireless adapter. But I still needed the ability to connect to the Internet on the same adapter.
I found a website which showed how to do this by creating, with the Linux command iw, two interfaces to the same adapter and then using iptabes to share the connection to the Internet from one interface to the other.
This idea is pretty awesome but I couldn't get it to work. I may have simply needed to tweak the ip addresses.
Now I just forward the Internet from my wireless card through ethernet to another computer which then forwards it to a wireless interface. This second computer is running hostapd to create an access point that my tablet connects to.
When i was setting up this second computer to get the Internet through ethernet and shoot it out the WiFi I read that the interfaces which are connected by iptabes need to have their ip addresses different in a certain way. The arch wiki read that the first 3 sections of the two interfaces' ip addresses needed to be different. When I did this my two computer setup worked =)
I wonder if the two interfaces / one wireless card idea would have worked if I had known the interfaces' ips had to be different in that specific way.
Anyways, I now have Internet to my tablet around the house, maybe I will put that second computer in a place the rest of the family can use it.
Now if I could only figure out how to get past the port blocking which is preventing me from accessing my ssh and ftp servers from a remote place.