Unidentified network

[LithPanchii]

So for over a month ive been using my old laptop to tether my wireless connection to my PC as my router is in hallway next to exit doors of house and my pc is in my room across kitchen and living room so i cant run a cable thru half the house  One day i reinstalled windows on the laptop and went to set everything up and i got Unidentified network and i couldnt share my internet connection via the ICS thing. I tried the troubleshooter in windows, unplug and plug back in, restarting even reformatting both pc and laptop but to no avail... any ideas on what i can do besides getting a proper wifi card/adapter(im planning to do that soon)

[LithPanchii]

Daily bump

[DrDrummer]

Have you installed the correct Network Drivers already? would try that first

[LithPanchii]

I have used the default windows drivers and the network card in my laptop is detected fine. What i would do is run a windows 8.1 to go version cause i took out the hdd outta my laptop for pc cause i needed more space and laptop is just trash and it worked fine thru few reinstalls before but now it doesnt seem to want to do that

[LithPanchii]

daily bump

[LithPanchii]

not so daily bump, but seriously i still need help with this, i cant even transfer files or anything

[Donut417]

10 hours ago, LithPanchii said:

not so daily bump, but seriously i still need help with this, i cant even transfer files or anything

I think there is something in the Firewall settings that lets you set you network to Public or Private. I cant tell you where as Windows 10 pissed me off so I started using Linux instead. 

[LithPanchii]

15 hours ago, Donut417 said:

I think there is something in the Firewall settings that lets you set you network to Public or Private. I cant tell you where as Windows 10 pissed me off so I started using Linux instead. 

imma give it a try. i use win8 on laptop  btw.

btw if anyone else got more ideas, please post them

[LithPanchii]

16 hours ago, Donut417 said:

I think there is something in the Firewall settings that lets you set you network to Public or Private. I cant tell you where as Windows 10 pissed me off so I started using Linux instead. 

yea, it didnt work. any more ideas?

[AngryBeaver]

On 8/29/2019 at 3:36 PM, LithPanchii said:

So for over a month ive been using my old laptop to tether my wireless connection to my PC as my router is in hallway next to exit doors of house and my pc is in my room across kitchen and living room so i cant run a cable thru half the house  One day i reinstalled windows on the laptop and went to set everything up and i got Unidentified network and i couldnt share my internet connection via the ICS thing. I tried the troubleshooter in windows, unplug and plug back in, restarting even reformatting both pc and laptop but to no avail... any ideas on what i can do besides getting a proper wifi card/adapter(im planning to do that soon)

So when you say tether your wireless connection to your PC. Do you mean via a WIFI router? So you are saying your what... hooking your pc to the laptop via a ethernet cable and sharing the connection that way? Why not invest in either a cheap wireless card for your PC or get a wifi range extender with a LAN port to plug in to.

 

You aren't being clear enough with your intent and setup. I need to know how you are getting internet on both devices. I mean you could just be having an issue with your wireless router and a restart could fix it. It could be signal strenth... have you tried moving the laptop closer to the router to get the connection established. I just think we need more to go on before we can really troubleshoot the cause.

[Donut417]

24 minutes ago, LithPanchii said:

yea, it didnt work. any more ideas?

Not really. I don’t use Windows 10 anymore. Because I refuse. 

[LithPanchii]

33 minutes ago, AngryBeaver said:

So when you say tether your wireless connection to your PC. Do you mean via a WIFI router? So you are saying your what... hooking your pc to the laptop via a ethernet cable and sharing the connection that way? Why not invest in either a cheap wireless card for your PC or get a wifi range extender with a LAN port to plug in to.

 

You aren't being clear enough with your intent and setup. I need to know how you are getting internet on both devices. I mean you could just be having an issue with your wireless router and a restart could fix it. It could be signal strenth... have you tried moving the laptop closer to the router to get the connection established. I just think we need more to go on before we can really troubleshoot the cause.

So this worked fo over a month, laptop is in same position, tried restarting everything, formated b both pc and laptop. 

I have laptop connected via wifi and using lan cable to PC and windows internet connection sharing. I plan to get a wifi adapter but im saving up to uograde to a i5 4570 from mycore 2 quad

[AngryBeaver]

7 minutes ago, LithPanchii said:

So this worked fo over a month, laptop is in same position, tried restarting everything, formated b both pc and laptop. 

I have laptop connected via wifi and using lan cable to PC and windows internet connection sharing. I plan to get a wifi adapter but im saving up to uograde to a i5 4570 from mycore 2 quad

You can get one either from walmart on amazon for like 10-15 bucks FYI. Which would be a much better solution in the end. For about 25 you could get a tenda wifi range extender with a LAN port that would also work if you wanted to increase your wifi range potentially.

[Olaf6541]

I cant help you myself but ill leave this here:

https://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/fix-unidentified-network-and-no-network-access-in-windows/

[LithPanchii]

15 hours ago, Olaf6541 said:

I cant help you myself but ill leave this here:

https://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/fix-unidentified-network-and-no-network-access-in-windows/

Nah, i read many articles, not much helped... Like they suggest disabling McAfee, like if anyone actually uses it, just kill me

[LithPanchii]

16 hours ago, AngryBeaver said:

You can get one either from walmart on amazon for like 10-15 bucks FYI. Which would be a much better solution in the end. For about 25 you could get a tenda wifi range extender with a LAN port that would also work if you wanted to increase your wifi range potentially.

Yea, i tried asking my brother because we used ICS like a year ago and even he couldnt help so i guess im stuck buying a adapter, thx for trying to help i guess

[AngryBeaver]

3 hours ago, LithPanchii said:

Yea, i tried asking my brother because we used ICS like a year ago and even he couldnt help so i guess im stuck buying a adapter, thx for trying to help i guess

I think it is going to be the best option going forward.They are inexpensive and you can use it still if you upgrade. It just takes the laptop out of the equation which you said doesn't have an internal storage drive anyways.

[Alex Atkin UK]

On 9/7/2019 at 1:18 PM, AngryBeaver said:

I think it is going to be the best option going forward.They are inexpensive and you can use it still if you upgrade. It just takes the laptop out of the equation which you said doesn't have an internal storage drive anyways.

Its also likely to be more reliable, as ICS will block certain kinds of traffic and also causes a double-NAT which is potentially an issue if gaming.