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Problems with Bridge Network Connection sharing?

undefeatedmonarch
By undefeatedmonarch
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Hello everyone!

 

I'm trying to help out a friend but I'm not sure what his problem is.

 

He currently has his main, tower, gaming PC that connections to the Internet via a bridged connection from his laptop.

 

So, in other words:

His laptop and main PC are connected via an Ethernet cable. The laptop is the HOST of the bridged connection. The main PC receives the connection from the laptop.

 

The problem:

From what he has told me, he's been having problems since he came back from a week long vacation. He told me that whenever he leaves his PC, then comes back to it in a few hours, the bridged connection is no longer working and that he has to fiddle with settings for a few minutes just to get it working again.

 

Is there any potential solutions so that he longer has this problem and the bridged connection works permanently?

 

Thanks for the help!  

 

 

EDIT: Both run Windows 10.

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If you want the best solution get a wireless card for the tower, but check for driver updates on the network cards for both systems.

 

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After recent Win10 update to 1607 Anniversary version my bridged network connections suddenly quit working too.  These were the VMware network adapters on the host used for connections in my Guest VMs.  This was consistent for all 8 guest VMs on that computer unable to use bridge connections.  And it was also consistent on my other computer which hosted 6 other guest VMs, all of which were unable to have bridge connections on the host after the host win10 1607 update. Changing the guest VMs to use NAT instead of bridged worked fine though but that was not our preference.

 

This same issue happened back when I first upgraded from win7 to win10.  Seems that some of the these win10 updates somehow clobber bridge connections. I've read of others having same issue with their bridge networks failing after the first win7 to win10 upgrade and also this 1607 ugprade, so I don't think it is specific to virtual adapters.

 

My "solution" was to drop those adapters and recreate them after the 1607 anniversary upgrade.  After that, the bridge connections are working fine.  

 

I'm not sure if this is same issue your friend is having because it sounds like your friend bridge problem is happening more often than that?

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54 minutes ago, undefeatedmonarch said:

lol, he does have a router. I think you're misunderstanding... :/

I guess so, because from your description of the issue he's using the laptop with ICS to get internet to the desktop

otherwise, "bridged connection" means something else!?

 

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37 minutes ago, mercenarygod said:

The first thing I would try is,

Remove the bridged connection.

Re-create the bridged connection.

Assign a static IP outside of the DHCP pool to the network adapter on the laptop connecting to the internet.

 

Thanks, I'll tell him to give this a try.

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41 minutes ago, zMeul said:

I guess so, because from your description of the issue he's using the laptop with ICS to get internet to the desktop

otherwise, "bridged connection" means something else!?

 

No... He's using Window's ability to bridge the connection from his laptop to PC with an Ethernet cable... In Control Panel...

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Just now, undefeatedmonarch said:

I really don't understand what you're talking about. Sorry. He does have a router...

if he has a router, then why he needs to share the internet from his laptop to his desktop?

it's because he doesn't have a router

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23 minutes ago, undefeatedmonarch said:

I really don't understand what you're talking about. Sorry. He does have a router...

ICS: Internet Connection Sharing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Connection_Sharing

 

This is actually different from the bridged network connection your friend is doing but is similar.

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28 minutes ago, zMeul said:

if he has a router, then why he needs to share the internet from his laptop to his desktop?

it's because he doesn't have a router

The authors friend is probably using the laptop's wireless card to connect to a router. Then uses a bridged wired connection to the desktop.

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37 minutes ago, mercenarygod said:

The authors friend is probably using the laptop's wireless card to connect to a router. Then uses a bridged wired connection to the desktop.

Yes, this exactly. Thanks for clearing it up :D

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1 hour ago, zMeul said:

then why doesn't he connects the desktop directly to the router!?

it solves a whole lot of issues

Because he doesn't have a wireless card, so he uses his laptop to allow his PC to connect to the Internet. It becomes a wired connection from his PC to his laptop. Router sends wireless signal to laptop, laptop sends WIRED signal to desktop. :)

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Just now, undefeatedmonarch said:

Because he doesn't have a wireless card, so he uses his laptop to allow his PC to connect to the Internet. It becomes a wired connection from his PC to his laptop. Router sends wireless signal to laptop, laptop sends WIRED signal to desktop. :)

what router is that that doesn't have wired connections too!?! did he bought it or it's from the ISP?

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6 minutes ago, zMeul said:

what router is that that doesn't have wired connections too!?! did he bought it or it's from the ISP?

Dude, seriously. It's simple. He has a house, right, and in his house, he has multiple rooms. Got it. One of those rooms is his bedroom. Unfortunately, his router (surprise, he has a router) is on the opposite end of his house. So... instead of passing an Ethernet cable across his house, into his room, he uses his LAPTOP, which receives the wireless connection that is sent from the router. After that, he plugs an Ethernet cable into his laptop. After that, he plugs the other end of that cable into his tower PC. Following so far? Gooood. Now, on his laptop, he uses a feature in Control Panel. With this high tech feature, he allows the laptop to BRIDGE the wireless connection of the laptop to the Ethernet cable. Wow. From that point on, the PC detects the connection as a wired connection. And then, guess what? His PC can connect to the Internet via that shared connection! ;)

 

EDIT: His laptop is in his room...

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2 minutes ago, undefeatedmonarch said:

He has a house, right, and in his house, he has multiple rooms. Got it.

ok, then .. jeez

why doesn't he buys a WiFi card for his desktop if going with a cable is out of the question

 

my original point stands - it would solve a whole lot of issues

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12 minutes ago, zMeul said:

ok, then .. jeez

why doesn't he buys a WiFi card for his desktop if going with a cable is out of the question

 

my original point stands - it would solve a whole lot of issues

Sorry, not trying to be mean. He probably will just buy a WiFi card for his desktop.

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