Sharing 4g-cellular(huawei e3372) connection over ethernet on windows 10

[rincewind84]

So I am trying to find a way to share my 4g/LTE USB dongle connection from one pc, through Ethernet cable, to another.

My problem is that windows seems to stop the internet access as soon as i plug the Ethernet cable in. And I suspect that windows is "mothering" me and trying to spare me the data-charges by disabling cellular connection as soon as another is present. The thing is though, that on the other end of the cable is another PC, not connected to the internet.

I enabled sharing of the cellular connection. But to no avail.

So is there a way to make windows treat my cellular connection as if it was a wi-fi?

 

[COLGeek]

Go here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-networking-winpc/internet-connection-sharing-in-windows-10/f6dcac4b-5203-4c98-8cf2-dcac86d98fb9?auth=1

Set up Internet Connection Sharing and you should be good to go. Good luck.

 

[rincewind84]

Ok.

I've been on that help page a couple of times before.

Earlier I was connecting PC-1 to a wi-fi and then sharing that connection through Ethernet to PC-2 which doesn't have wi-fi.

That worked with no problems. What I am trying to do here is sharing a connection that windows sees as "cellular" and therefore only connects to when no other connections are available. So what I experience is that after I enable sharing of the cellular connection (in network adapter settings) and then plug in the cable between PC-1 and PC-2, the connection to the internet is gone. On both PCs.
As soon as I again unplug the cable the connection returns. On PC-1

And when I say the connection is gone. The signal icon is still there in the corner showing full connection.

So my question is whether there is a way to make windows 10 stop trying to decide when it is ok to use data on my cellular connection 🙂

 

[bill001g]

It should work correctly if you have ics setup right. win10 is done slightly differently so make sure you have the correct guide.

The choice of network adapter is based on METRIC the lower the better. By default ethernet tends to have a lower number. You can change this in the ipv4 setting under the advanced tab. Look at the ROUTE PRINT and see what the USB adapter is getting and set the ethernet higher.

Still you should not need to do this, you would only really do this if you wanted say a local lan and the mobile broadband active at the same time....but separate.

I don't know if they fixed it yet or not. I know when I tried this a couple years ago the drivers used for the tethering did not have the option you needed to share the connection with ICS.

 

[COLGeek]

Were you able to designate the cellular device/network as the shared interface?

 

[rincewind84]

Now I have tried a lot of different settings.

Yes I am able to specify the cellular network as shared. Playing with the METRIC setting changed nothing.

As I was trying to say. Windows 10 sees three different kinds of connections. Wifi, cellular and Ethernet.
In the cellular tab I can chose to roam or not to roam, which shouldn't be important in this case. Then I can select whether to use cellular network when wifi signal is low. Or not to use it when a wifi is present.

The computer I am trying to share the connection from does not have wifi, at all. So this shouldn't be important either.

But still as soon as i connect an Ethernet cable between the two computers, it seems as if it recognizes it as an internet connection and then chooses to use this instead of the cellular one. Even though the Ethernet cable provides no internet connection.

So that was why i used the word "mothering". I get how cellular networks have a data plan and so on. But I want windows to stop trying to control this and to stop trying to prevent me from using my data plan. I want to use data from the cellular connection and share it through Ethernet with the other PC.

From various google searches I gather that I am not the only person having a hard time making this work on windows 10. So right now I am considering to install windows 7 on the machine from which I want to share the connection. Simply to find a solution.

I feel like I am running out of other options.

 

[rincewind84]

So I did decide to re-install windows 7. Am going on holiday soon and want these two computers to stay online while I'm gone.

While hardly a real solution to my initial problem, this did solve my problem. Just not on windows 10.

On windows 7, it just worked. No hassle.

Shared the cellular connection, connected the cable to the second PC and voila. So either way I am now a happy camper 🙂

Thanks for your advice even so!