Bridge from Wifi to Ethernet not working (Windows 10)
Wi-Fi cannot be bridged to Ethernet. This is not a Windows limitation in any way. There’s a good explanation on why that is in the old OpenWrt wiki.
Instead, you should use Internet Connection Sharing (ie. make your PC a router):
- Go to the Network Connections control panel (where you’re currently trying to create the bridge)
- Open your Wi-Fi connection’s properties.
- Switch to the “Sharing” tab
- Enable it, selecting your Ethernet connection as the “Home networking connection”.
Everything should automatically work after that.
Wi-Fi CAN be bridged to Ethernet on Windows 10.
- Connect to Internet via WiFi.
- Take note of your private IP settings
(e.g. IP:192.168.1.44 SM:255.255.255.0 GW:192.168.1.1 DNS:192.168.1.1) - In Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network Connections, highlight WiFi and Ethernet (use shift click or Ctrl Click or shift arrow key). Rt-click on highlighted area and choose "Bridge Connections"
- At this point, hosting PC will likely lose Internet especially if you connect a device on the Ethernet port.
- To correct this loss of Internet on "host PC", go to Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network Connections, and double-click "Network Bridge" to open Network Bridge Status dialogue.
- Click Properties button (might be slow to populate, be patient)
- Highlight WiFi in top box
- Double-click IPv4 in bottom box to open IPv4 Properties
- Select "Use the following IP address" and manually fill in settings recorded from step TWO.
- OK your way out
- Enjoy Internet on both your "host PC" as well as add-on device connected to host PC via Ethernet (extension of your WiFi network).
Note1: This also works with LAN-LAN bridge
Note2: I disabled IPv6 on "wireless bridge" but probably unnecessary.