How to Share Your Internet Connection

The process of sharing your internet connection is very easy. You can pair your Windows PC to the internet connection and start sharing an internet connection with another system in the local area network. You can also share multiple internet connections to multiple systems by using Windows sharing function. Here’s how to share your internet connection.

How to Share an Internet Connection in Windows PC?

• Configure home networking devices. If you wish to share an internet connection by using Home network, then you will be needed a different layout instead of a wireless network standard. Here are the basic layouts mentioned below:

1. Pair the system which is sharing the internet connection to the wireless broadband modem through Ethernet or mobile hotspot by using Universal Serial Bus.
2. In case you are pairing the wireless broadband modem to the network host through Ethernet, and you should have two Ethernet sockets.

• Go to the Network and internet menu given on the system. You can launch this menu by clicking on the Windows and R keys together and entering {{kbd|ncpa.cpl.
• You have to right-click on the electrical adapters which are paired to the Wi-Fi network. It will bet the wireless broadband modem or Universal Serial Bus hotspot. Ensure that you are working on the electrical adapter which is paired to the internet connection.
• Choose the Properties option and after that, tap on the Sharing button.
• Go through the "Allow other network users to connect through this computer’s Internet connection" checkbox.
• Press on the Apple button to save the changes you had made.
• Tap on the Settings option to turn on the particular services. It is essential in case other systems want to access FTP, email, and other particular services.
• Go through the checkbox for the particular service you wish to turn on.
• Go to the wireless router configuration webpage. After the host system is completed its setting up process, you have to configure your home router to permit for creating a pass-through connection.
• You do not have to work on the alternate configuration.
• Go to the Internet Settings webpage given on the wireless broadband router.
• Make sure that the "IP Address" column gets to change into "Get Automatically" column.
• You need to pair the other systems to the wireless broadband router.
• In case you are paring through Ethernet, then pair other systems to the LAN sockets on the wireless broadband router.
• In case you are paring the router wirelessly, then you need to pair to the wireless broadband router.

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Kellie minton is an avid technical blogger, a magazine contributor, a publisher of guides at mcafee.com/activate and a professional cyber security analyst. Through her writing, she aims to educate people about the dangers and threats lurking in the digital world.

Kellie minton is an avid technical blogger, a magazine contributor, a publisher of guides at mcafee.com/activate and a professional cyber security analyst.