For the past few weeks I was facing a tech problem. I got a USB 3G dongle and I plugged into my desktop. The speed was good and everything was fine. But I had two other devices; my laptop and my phone that might need Wi-Fi every now and then.
With the dongle plugged into the desktop, the only way to connect other devices to the internet was to unplug the donglehuawei 4g modem device from my desktop and plug it into my laptop. I thought of going for the Wi-Fi version of the dongle, but it costs thousand bucks more than the normal one. So I had no other choice but to buy a normal dongle. So I was in need of a method to make all the devices go online.
Before the 3G connection, I had a wire line broadband connection. I ditched my wire line internet connection as I had some connectivity issues. During the time when I had my wire line internet connection (broadband), I had a wired modem and a wireless router. The modem was taken aback by the internet company but I had my router with me.
I took the Wi-Fi router and connected it to the Ethernet port of my desktop computer. I made sure that one end of3g usb modem the LAN cable is plugged into the Ethernet port of the desktop and the other end plugged into the LAN port of my wireless router (one of the four other slots apart from where the modem wire goes in).
Now I went to the network icon on the bottom right corner of my windows start bar and clicked on it. When you click the icon, you can see the name of your USB dongle displayed under Dial-up and VPN.