set-up wireless connection for laptop from a vpn-connected desktop.

Guys, hi !

I'm relative newbie in all that's related to wireless routers e.t.c.

The thing goes like this:
I live in a university dorms where i can connect to the internet via a
vpn connection to the university.
I use that with my desktop pc and all is wired, working and fun.

Now i add a laptop and a wireless router to this configuration
I want to be able to use my laptop's wifi capabilities, i.e. surf the
web from my laptop with no strings attached.

How do i configure the vpn connection, the wires that go into the
router so that i have internet on both the desktop and the laptop
computers ?


Thanks for helping out a internet hungry university chap ;-)

Arie

(E-Mail Removed) wrote...
>
>Guys, hi !
>
>I'm relative newbie in all that's related to wireless routers e.t.c.
>
>The thing goes like this:
>I live in a university dorms where i can connect to the internet via a
>vpn connection to the university.
>I use that with my desktop pc and all is wired, working and fun.
>
>Now i add a laptop and a wireless router to this configuration
>I want to be able to use my laptop's wifi capabilities, i.e. surf the
>web from my laptop with no strings attached.
>
>How do i configure the vpn connection, the wires that go into the
>router so that i have internet on both the desktop and the laptop
>computers ?

The way you described your scenario is very strange.

Are you inside the University network or outside?
If you are inside, you don't need a VPN to connect
to the University network.
If you are outside, your ISP would provide internet
access for you (and you don't need a VPN for you to
reach the inetnet indirectly).

So, when you said you "connect to the internet via a vpn
connection to the university," it sounded very strange.

How does your desktop establish a VPN connection to the
University network?

On Jan 23, 4:36*am, harryooopot...@hotmail.co_ (Harry331) wrote:
> arie.co...@gmail.com wrote...
>
> >Guys, hi !
>
> >I'm relative newbie in all that's related to wireless routers e.t.c.
>
> >The thing goes like this:
> >I live in a university dorms where i can connect to the internet via a
> >vpn connection to the university.
> >I use that with my desktop pc and all is wired, working and fun.
>
> >Now i add a laptop and a wireless router to this configuration
> >I want to be able to use my laptop's wifi capabilities, i.e. surf the
> >web from my laptop with no strings attached.
>
> >How do i configure the vpn connection, the wires that go into the
> >router so that i have internet on both the desktop and the laptop
> >computers ?
>
> The way you described your scenario is very strange.
>
> Are you inside the University network or outside?
> If you are inside, you don't need a VPN to connect
> to the University network.
> If you are outside, your ISP would provide internet
> access for you (and you don't need a VPN for you to
> reach the inetnet indirectly).
>
> So, when you said you "connect to the internet via a vpn
> connection to the university," it sounded very strange.
>
> How does your desktop establish a VPN connection to the
> University network?


Harry, hi !

Thanks for your response.
The way i have setup my connection to the university is by creating a
new connection
(now when you mentioned that vpn sounds strange), it seems that it a
kind of a "dialer"
to the university WAN.

I setup a connection in "internet connection wizard", provided it with
an ip of a university computer
and i provide username and password. The whole thing is through
network, (as opposed to modem)
therefore the term dialing is a bit weird to use in this case.

Anyhow, once i am connected to the uni (no isp involved here) via this
"dialer", the world is mine - i just
open up a browser and go wherever.

I hope i managed to get it a bit clearer.
Could you provide some insight on how can i plug a wireless router
into the picture to enable surfing from my wifi laptop ?

On Jan 23, 12:34*am, arie.co...@gmail.com wrote:
> > How does your desktop establish a VPN connection to the
> > University network?
[...]
> The way i have setup my connection to the university is by creating a
> new connection
> (now when you mentioned that vpn sounds strange), it seems that it a
> kind of a "dialer"
> to the university WAN.
>
> I setup a connection in "internet connection wizard", provided it with
> an ip of a university computer
> and i provide username and password. The whole thing is through
> network, (as opposed to modem)
> therefore the term dialing is a bit weird to use in this case.
>
> Anyhow, once i am connected to the uni (no isp involved here) via this
> "dialer", the world is mine - i just
> open up a browser and go wherever.

If you open a cmd prompt on your desktop, and type ipconfig /all, you
will get the connection info.

What are these info BEFORE and AFTER your desktop is connected
to your University network ?

You may try setting your router with the later set of connection info.
I never try that myself. It's up to you to explore if it will make
your
router work (wirelessly) this way.

Also, if you are doing something againist your University network
usage policy, you may probably get yourself into troubles.
So, do-able or not is one thing. Doing thing that will get yourself
into trouble is another.