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I have a home LAN like millions of others and I want to connect to my Andriod phone via WiFi hotspot. Then I want to access an app on the phone through the LAN from any PC in the LAN. I thought a Windows network bridge might work but no. There are dozens of sites that tell you how to create a bridge but none that actually tell you how to make it do something useful.
Details:
I am using a Windows 7 laptop that has an Ethernet adapter for LAN and a wireless adapter used for wireless connections. The LAN has a wireless router that provides my ISP connection. The laptop and all LAN connections go through a switch that up-links to the router. The router uses DHCP to get an IP from the ISP. The internal network is assigned 10.0.0.x addresses which I believe is a fairly common practice for Cisco routers. Mine is a Netgear6300.
The router is providing the laptop with an address of 10.0.0.12 and a gateway of 10.0.0.1 as expected. The Android is providing 192.168.43.1 as the gateway address and 192.168.43.17 for the wireless adapter.
With both connections active I can successfully connect to both the LAN and WiFi. I can connect the phone app from the laptop as well as access the WEB, shared drives on other machines and all other LAN functions. I have not been able to figure out how to access the android app from another machine however.
The first puzzle is that when I connect to the phone app, I use 192.168.43.1. (HTTP://192.168.43.1:8080). Based on addresses shown by ipconfig I would have expected it to be 192.168.43.17 but this is the address the app says I should use and it works.
???
What I've Tried:
1. First I tried just connecting from another wired machine (10.0.0.13) although I did not expect it to work because there is no way it could know where to find 192.168.43.1. Sure enough it did not work ("This page cannot be displayed"). Then I added a static route to the router: Ip: 192.168.43.1; Gateway: 10.0.0.12; Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.255; Metric: 2. This did not work either ("This page cannot be displayed").
2. Then I removed the static route and bridged the wired and wireless connections. Now it does not work from either machine ("This page cannot be displayed" from both 10.0.0.12 and 10.0.0.13). And with the added bonus of changing the IP address of the machine to 10.0.0.20. Wow! I then added static route: Ip: 192.168.43.1; Gateway: 10.0.0.20; Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.255; Metric: 2. Did not work on either machine ("This page cannot be displayed"). While putzing around I learned that the connection you right click on is the one it takes the attributes from: When I created a bridge by right clicking on the wireless bridge I got this:
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.43.19
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.43.1
So now my machine is off the LAN and I can't see any other machines and my external IP has changed because I'm going out over the phone WiFi. This just keeps getting better and better.
3. The I tried sharing the LAN connection. This did not work plus it took away my LAN access.
4. The I tried sharing the wireless connection. This didn't work eithes. Also took away my LAN access.
This network stuff always gives me a headache.
I have spent hours on this and so far I can't see the benefits to bridging or sharing. it seems like they remove more capability than they provide. Is there any other way I can accomplish what I want? Any help would be appreciated.
ken
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Details:
I am using a Windows 7 laptop that has an Ethernet adapter for LAN and a wireless adapter used for wireless connections. The LAN has a wireless router that provides my ISP connection. The laptop and all LAN connections go through a switch that up-links to the router. The router uses DHCP to get an IP from the ISP. The internal network is assigned 10.0.0.x addresses which I believe is a fairly common practice for Cisco routers. Mine is a Netgear6300.
The router is providing the laptop with an address of 10.0.0.12 and a gateway of 10.0.0.1 as expected. The Android is providing 192.168.43.1 as the gateway address and 192.168.43.17 for the wireless adapter.
With both connections active I can successfully connect to both the LAN and WiFi. I can connect the phone app from the laptop as well as access the WEB, shared drives on other machines and all other LAN functions. I have not been able to figure out how to access the android app from another machine however.
The first puzzle is that when I connect to the phone app, I use 192.168.43.1. (HTTP://192.168.43.1:8080). Based on addresses shown by ipconfig I would have expected it to be 192.168.43.17 but this is the address the app says I should use and it works.
???
What I've Tried:
1. First I tried just connecting from another wired machine (10.0.0.13) although I did not expect it to work because there is no way it could know where to find 192.168.43.1. Sure enough it did not work ("This page cannot be displayed"). Then I added a static route to the router: Ip: 192.168.43.1; Gateway: 10.0.0.12; Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.255; Metric: 2. This did not work either ("This page cannot be displayed").
2. Then I removed the static route and bridged the wired and wireless connections. Now it does not work from either machine ("This page cannot be displayed" from both 10.0.0.12 and 10.0.0.13). And with the added bonus of changing the IP address of the machine to 10.0.0.20. Wow! I then added static route: Ip: 192.168.43.1; Gateway: 10.0.0.20; Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.255; Metric: 2. Did not work on either machine ("This page cannot be displayed"). While putzing around I learned that the connection you right click on is the one it takes the attributes from: When I created a bridge by right clicking on the wireless bridge I got this:
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.43.19
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.43.1
So now my machine is off the LAN and I can't see any other machines and my external IP has changed because I'm going out over the phone WiFi. This just keeps getting better and better.
3. The I tried sharing the LAN connection. This did not work plus it took away my LAN access.
4. The I tried sharing the wireless connection. This didn't work eithes. Also took away my LAN access.
This network stuff always gives me a headache.
I have spent hours on this and so far I can't see the benefits to bridging or sharing. it seems like they remove more capability than they provide. Is there any other way I can accomplish what I want? Any help would be appreciated.
ken
Continue reading...