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Internet Connection Sharing and mobile hotspot. Windows 10 CU 1703
Hi all,
I have a problem with my network sharing.
Let me explain first. The dorm I live in only has wifi. WPA2- Enterprise security. I am able to connect with this network with my laptop.
Because I want to have multiple ethernet connections in my dorm ( For my ps3, smart tv, Blu-Ray player) I shared my wifi network and with an ethernet out port on my laptop I connected my laptop to a router. So the connection is ethernet port on laptop to Internet port on my router. From there I connected all my devices to the router.
- This worked! Until now ..
I was watching netflix on my smart tv. Laptop was on, the internet LED on my router was on, like it is normally. And suddenly my movie started buffering and netflix gave an error that it was disconnected from the internet. I restarted my laptop, router, tv, everything! And after about 30 minutes of figuring out what the problem was I noticed that when I share my network and have the build in windows hotspot disabled. The shared connection does not reach my router and my tv has no internet. Then I turned the hotspot on. No devices connected. And suddely my router got internet signal again.
- Very strange. Now I cannot share my wifi network over laptop ethernet port to my router without having the build in windows hotspot turned on. This isnt that big of a problem. Except, The hotspot keeps turning itself off every 5 mins.
And the weirdest thing is, I never had this problem before. I never even used the windows hotspot before.
I tried reinstalling drivers, restarting router, Resetting router. There is no way I can undo this.
Please help me. I think it is a bug in windows 10.
[summary: windows 10 build in hotspot needs to be on to share my wifi connection through ethernet port]