Configuring The Other Computers (Cont’d)

12. After this point you will have access to the Internet using the Internet connection available on your host computer. Test your network by opening your web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc) and trying to open a well-known website like Google.

13. Now on your host computer its wireless connection will also appear as “connected”, see Figure 14. Like we said before the wireless connection on the host computer will appear as “connected” only when other computers are connected to it.

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Figure 14: Now the wireless connecting of our host computer appears as “Connected”.

14. In order to prevent instability issues on your wireless network, we recommend you to remove all other networks that may appear listed under Preferred Networks on all computers. This can be done right clicking your wireless connection on Network Connections (Start, Control Panel), selecting Properties, then on the window that will show up click on Wireless Networks tab. Remove all other networks listed under Preferred Networks but your own network, like shown on Figure 15.

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Figure 15: Remove all other preferred networks and leave only your own network.

15. Now that you have your Internet shared wirelessly between all your computers, you can configure your network to share printers and files. The great thing about sharing is that the files and printers that you want to share don’t need to be located on the host computer, they can be located in any one of the computers present on your network (however if you are going to share a printer we suggest you to connect this printer to the host computer as this computer will have to be turned on all the time anyway; otherwise the computer that has the printer will have to be turned on when you want to print something from other computer). To do that, read our How to Share Folders and Printers on Your Network tutorial.

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