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    DIY Laptop router - I have two USB-to-ETHERNET adapters. One to receive internet from the ISP router and 2nd to send traffic to another PC? How?

    No criminal record and no gang affiliations but they will almost certainly block me at the airport or the border. I don't have the money to buy 10 or 15 plane tickets and I don't have the friends to help me with that anyway..
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    DIY Laptop router - I have two USB-to-ETHERNET adapters. One to receive internet from the ISP router and 2nd to send traffic to another PC? How?

    UM433IQ is the laptop. It has a USB 3.0 A port and USB 3.0 C 10Gigabit port. I suspect these are the same hub or chip or whatever. On the other side of the laptop it has a USB 2.0 port. That's correct I have no support with networking either. Well I don't know exactly how to answer your...
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    DIY Laptop router - I have two USB-to-ETHERNET adapters. One to receive internet from the ISP router and 2nd to send traffic to another PC? How?

    Thanks! I have two Cable-matters ones. https://a.co/d/d8e9KJJ Okay there are many different fanless mini PCs.. but what specs do you think are bare minimum and ideal? What to consider? Going for affordable and second hand possibly here..
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    DIY Laptop router - I have two USB-to-ETHERNET adapters. One to receive internet from the ISP router and 2nd to send traffic to another PC? How?

    Hey thanks for writing me. Okay pfSense on dedicated hardware it is. Should I buy some kind of Ethernet switch and run pfSense on my laptop? What hardware is ideal and what is the most affordable hardware (has to be quiet) that I can run pfSense on? Thanks for your help!
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    DIY Laptop router - I have two USB-to-ETHERNET adapters. One to receive internet from the ISP router and 2nd to send traffic to another PC? How?

    Thanks for commenting. To be clear, if I follow your instructions will this virtual PFsense router be vetting the internet traffic for both my laptop and desktop or will the internet traffic bypass my firewall and just be redirected to the desktop? I am a networking amateur but what I am wanting...
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    DIY Laptop router - I have two USB-to-ETHERNET adapters. One to receive internet from the ISP router and 2nd to send traffic to another PC? How?

    Thanks for commenting. To be clear, if I follow your instructions will this virtual PFsense router be vetting the internet traffic for both my laptop and desktop or will the internet traffic bypass my firewall and just be redirected to the desktop? I am a networking amateur but what I am wanting...
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    DIY Laptop router - I have two USB-to-ETHERNET adapters. One to receive internet from the ISP router and 2nd to send traffic to another PC? How?

    thanks for writing. Can what I am trying to do be done even though the adapters are less than ideal?
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    DIY Laptop router - I have two USB-to-ETHERNET adapters. One to receive internet from the ISP router and 2nd to send traffic to another PC? How?

    Currently using Windows 10 enterprise LTSC and was hoping to setup a virtual PFsense with Hyper-V or some other virtual software. I have TWO usb-ethernet adapters and I want to use one to recieve internet and the other to send internet to my other PC also on windows 10 enterprise. How can this...
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