XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: nobody@nowhere.co.uk   
      
   Patrick wrote:   
   > Desktop PC to Android Mobile Hotspot - What do you use for the Gateway?   
   > 1. My Windows 10 desktop has no Wi-Fi card.   
   > 2. So I Ethernet out to an old router acting as a wireless client bridge.   
      
   I'm confused by the terminology.  I would expect "wireless client" to be   
   sufficient.   
      
   > 3. This has been working for many years.   
      
   OK so what is the internet router it normally connects to?  And what LAN   
   IP address does it have?   
      
   > For whatever reason, the Internet went out.   
      
   To avoid confusion, power off this router while the internet is dead.   
      
   > So I set up the phone as a   
   > Mobile Hotspot which works for the laptop.   
      
   What LAN IP address does this laptop report when connected to the hotspot?   
      
   > But I wanted the desktop to be connected also.   
   > 1. So I figured I'd set up the bridge, temporarily to the Mobile Hotspot.   
   > 2. The Mobile Hotspot has an SSID with the same passphrase as all my APs.   
      
   I think this is very confusing.  I think you should change its SSID to   
   be obviously different - "Hotspot" - and specify a different passphrase.   
      
   Then change the old router's wireless credentials to the values required   
   for the hotspot.   
      
   [snip]   
      
   > There's also a question in the DD-WRT wireless client bridge setup of:   
   > Local IP Address = 192.168.1.whatever/24   
   > Gateway = 192.168.1.1   
   > Local DNS = 192.168.1.1   
      
   The LAN IP address for the wireless client can only be used for   
   communication with the client itself.   The DHCP service should be off,   
   which means that to communicate with the wireless client your computer   
   needs a static address of the form 192.168.1.another.  The "gateway"   
   value is meaningless in this context.   
      
   Once you have the wireless client connected to the hotspot, reconfigure   
   your computer to "automatic IP addressing" then it will get its IP   
   address, DNS, and Gateway information directly from the hotspot.   
      
      
   --   
   Graham J   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)