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.