Today, we held an in-house training seminar at the PESA bldg.in Ramon Magsaysay Ave. It's not our normal venue, and the conference room was not equipped with Wifi, projector and screen, and even an adequate number of working electric wall sockets.
Our battle plan was for people to bring their own mobile wireless broadband. We wouldn't have a local network, but a few would at least have access to important emails. Along the way, I realized there must be a way to share the broadband internet, by building an ad hoc network.
All I need is to set up the computer with broadband to work as a wireless router. I tried this before in Windows XP back when I was in Shanghai, but I didn't get it to work. But I was more hopeful this time, with a more modern Ubuntu Linux 10.10 installation.
It turns out too dead simple. Once I get connected to the mobile broadband, it's just a few steps more:
1. Click on the Network Manager icon and choose to create a new network.
2. Give it a name (SSID). I typed "were".
3. Next, for some weak security, I chose 128-bit WEP encryption, and typed "wolf".
4. Click OK, and connect and you now have a wireless router!
Other laptops that want to connect to the ad hoc router just needs to connect to the "were" network, and provide the necessary encryption type and password.
This would be tremendously helpful trick for our next ad hoc offsite meetings and events.
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