[OT] Sharing a Wifi Connection

["paul_watkin" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Apologies for the OT post but I am hoping somebody can help me find the
answer as to how this can be done, from the subject it sounds so easy
however the scenario is

I have two PC's with wired ethernet connections that I wish to connect
to a commercial WiFi network i.e BT OpenZone and the like.

1 pc belongs to me and I have complete control over, the other is a
corporate laptop where I can't even access basic settings in IE as it
is so locked down.

My two ideas thus far have been to:-

a) use one of the many gaming adaptors that are on the market for
joining things like Xbox to your Wifi Network however these only appear
to be suitable for connecting to one PC at a time and don't have any
kind of firewall functionality (both PC's will be running Intenet
Security software)

b) Buy a Wifi Card for one PC and use ICS to get the other 1 online -
my main problem here is that I can't find a half height Wifi Card for
the PC I can access and can't get ICS to work on laptop due to no admin
rights.

so now I am stuck for ideas.

Any solutions need to be physically robust(it's going to be installed
in a power boat) and very stable as I won't always be around to fix it
if it goes wrong, so no hacking around in software.

I would appreciate any thoughts

Regards

Paul