5. After clicking Ok, you will see your network listed under Preferred Networks, see Figure 8. Your network will still be listed with a red “x”, this is absolutely normal.

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Figure 8: Our network being listed.

6. Now you need to share your Internet connection. Pay attention because this is done on network card that has your broadband Internet connected, not on your wireless network card. Go to Network Connections (Start, Control Panel), right click the network card where your broadband Internet is connected to and then choose Properties. On the window that will show up, click on Advanced tab. There, check the “Allow other network users to connect thru this computer’s Internet connection” box and make sure that the “Allow other network users to control or disable the shared Internet connection” is unchecked, see Figure 9.

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Figure 9: Sharing your Internet connection.

7. Click Ok and now you will see “Shared” under the name of the network connection where your broadband Internet is connected to (usually called “Local Area Connection”), see Figure 10. Your wireless connection will still be listed as “Not Connected”; this is absolutely normal. It will only change to “Connected” after any other computer has joined your network.

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Figure 10: Your Internet connection is now shared.

8. Now that your host computer is correctly configured, you need to configure the other computers that will have access to your wireless network.