Networking – How to get internet from wifi and share to LAN device

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In my apartment, I can only connect to the internet via apartment's Wifi hotspot. But I have a multiple devices that have only LAN connection such as PC, Internet TV, game console. All I have are DLINK wireless router(DSL-264OBT) and USB wireless adapter.

Objective: I'd like to access an internet from those devices.

Is it possible to use wireless router to connect to wifi hotspot and then share an internet to LAN via its own Ethernet port ?

One solution I can think of is to connect USB wireless adapter to PC and then share internet via router's LAN. But this way, If I want to play games, I have to turn on my PC all the time even I don't use it at all.

Anyone has solution for this ? It's OK for me to buy a new network device if it needed.

Best Answer

You need to create a wireless bridge, most home routers won't have that option without a custom firmware, but i believe a few d-links I've had have actually had that option and is actually how i have my HTPC, tv and PS3 connected to my home network at home, using a cheap linksys router that has ddwrt on it it

If you need something temporary you can use a laptop to create a bridge from your wireless to your wired NIC without using any extra software, here's a guide that has some info on it from technet.

DD-WRT is a custom firmware that would be able to get the job done with any compatible wireless router.

You can find the Router database for it here, your current dlink isn't supported how ever.

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