Connect N95 to Internet Through PC via WiFi
Let me explain the title first. Sometimes your PC or laptop has wired internet connection but there is no wireless (WiFi) around to allow your N95 connect to the net. What you’d like is to connect N95 to the net using the build-in WiFi through the WiFi capable PC/laptop. In another word, make the Laptop/PC a wireless hotspot, sort of reversed way of connection as I wrote about using N95 as wireless hotspot.
If you do understand what I mean and have such need (I do), here is how you do it.
Dotsisx at Symbian Guru gave a very detail steps on this topic. According to Dotsisx, there are basically two steps if you are using Windows XP:
Enable Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
- rom the Windows XP desktop, click Start, Control Panel, Network and Internet Connections, and Network Connections.
- Right-click the wired network connection (this is your current connection that is used to access the Internet, the wired one), and then click Properties.
- On the Advanced tab, select the Allow other network users to connect through this computer’s Internet connection check box and clear the Allow other network users to control or disable this shared Internet connection check box.
- Click OK to save changes to your connection.
Create protected wireless network shared through the ICS
- From the click Start, Control Panel, Network and Internet Connections, and Network Connections.
- Right-click the wireless network connection (this is your still disabled WiFi connection), and then click Properties.
- Click the Wireless Networks tab.
- In the wireless network adapter properties dialog box, click Add under Preferred networks.
- On the Association tab, type the name of your ad hoc wireless network in Network name (SSID). This is the name of the network you want to set, for example, I named mine Dotsisx as this is my nickname.
- Select the This is a computer-to-computer (ad hoc) network check box and clear the The key is provided for me automatically check box.
- In Network Authentication, select Open. In Data encryption, select WEP.
- In Network key, type the WEP key. The WEP key is a password that you are setting so that no one would access this network and make use of your bandwidth or data volumes. It should be a random sequence of hexadecimal digits or numbers, letters, and punctuation. Make sure you use something that you will remember easily, but that no other people in your surrounding might know
- In Confirm network key, retype the WEP key.
- Click OK to save changes to the wireless network and OK to save changes to the wireless network adapter.
That’s it.
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very good…
thanks…
Hi guys, nice post and nice blog by the way, I’m a novice owner of an N95, I just followed the steps detailed here and works perfect, but I’d like to know if there’s a linux setup to achieve the same.
I googled it but with no results
Thanks and keep up the good worK!
You are a genius! god bless you! This was so simple
Now i’m using N95 to the fullest potential thanks to you.
I have set the netwoek on the pc, but the N95 doesn’t “see” it… Did i miss something? do I have to do something on the phone?
Hi, I did the steps and it worked fine with me 100% fast and easy.
Thanks for the useful info bro
hi..
i know how to make my n95 in a wifi hotspot..
but do you know any way to use your n95 as wireless adapter?
like this, connecting my cell to my old labtop(who doesnt have wireless hardware) via usb, allowing connect my labtop to the router tha i have at home..
please tell me that is possible and you know how…xD
thanks…
by the way, i’m portugues so xcuse my english
i have tried and my 5800XM connects to the wlan but i keep getting the message “no gateway reply”
I did all this and I’m getting the message on my N95 “no gateway reply” :(…help please.
When I try to connect to my PC my phone will not connect, it restarts! Any advice? I’m rinning V31.0.015 Nokia N95 (08.01)
Same here with N95 8Gb (ad-hoc network defined on PC, but when connecting from the n95 I get “No gateway reply”). Maybe this configuration only works with older firmwares? Mine is V31.0.015.
Same here with N95 8Gb (ad-hoc network defined on PC, but when connecting from the n95 I get “No gateway reply”)help
Thanks dude!
But, is there a way to do it on Vista?
Ppl with “No gateway reply”
I got the solution on XP & Vista
Email me (untraceable2222@gmail.com)
I have some problem on the LAN network side:
- internet connection through LAN : up and running
- internet connection sharing: checked
- wireles ad-hoc connection: set up and connected
- connection to internet in the mobile phone (in my case E75-1): not going thru
What did I do wrong or omitted?
Jindrich
Thank you! This is awesome man it’s working fine in my N97. I was looking for this kind of information on the web with no success at all, until I found your post.
Now with joikuspot I can share the mobile connection to the laptop while I’m outside and with your post I can share my office connection to my mobile while working at the office…
Regards
heyy..
i got all d config done right and my n95 connects thru d wifi but when i open a page an error shows up sayin ‘NO GATEWAY REPLY’. M runnin d latest firmware on my n95 n my OS is Win XP SP3. HELP ME OUT GUYS
thank you for sharing this nice information, from this i can connect any wifi enabled gadjets to share internet connection of wired networked wireless adapter hooked pc or laptop