Hurricane Sandy - tethering to LAN?

[notShai]

my company's Verizon T1s and DSL backups are all down b/c Sandy knocked everything down in the area.

we tethered an android phone to a windows 7 laptop we get connection to the internet BUT when we connect to the LAN via a cable to share that data connection the data connection got disconnected.

the lan nic settings are:
ip-172.16.1.50
nm-255.255.248.0
gw-172.16.1.50 (we pointed it to itself, but the regular setup pointing to the cisco router .1.2 also didnt work)
dns-172.16.1.50 (we pointed it to itself, but the regular setup pointing to a windows DC dns server .1.3 also didnt work)

how do we get these to work and share them with other pc's on the network?

we covered the basics:
"server" =tetthered data connected pc with above ip
"client" = with LAN nic with a diff ip, same nm, gw/dns pointing to server above, enabled connection sharing, nada

we also downloaded and installed freeproxy 4.1 and upon that the tethering disconnected too, till we uninstalled the free proxy and the data connection returned to life.

help

 

[UncleMike]

I'm no Windows expert, but you'll need to enable connection sharing on the server (the pc with the tethered connection), not the client. If you're using any carrier-provided software on the PC to facilitate the tethering, this may be designed to prevent what you're trying to do. You might be better off simplifying things by removing Windows from the equation.

Some Wifi access points and routers can be configured to act as a Wifi client, essentially bridging the wired network they are connected to another network via a wireless connection. I think most Linksys devices can do this. If you have such a device available, you could setup FoxFi on the Android device, and setup the WAP/router to connect to the Android device as a Wifi client. FoxFi would then act as the router and DHCP server. You would also have to make sure that any other DHCP servers on your network are disabled, and any devices with static IP addresses are reconfigured to work with the network subnet and gateway provided by FoxFi.