Hello everyone,
I have a bit of a unique situation on my hands. I've been a part of cryptocurrencys for a few years, always loved mining with my GPU and trading online, finally decided to invest in an ASIC just to try it out before buying a S9. The problem I face is in my dorm we only have wireless internet access provided by Boingo, which means I don't have my own router to plug the S5 into. I thought about getting a router to pickup the wireless signal, and then just run an Ethernet cable from it to the miner, but I don't want to buy a router if that doesn't work. I had the idea that maybe my laptop could pick up the wireless signal and then provide the miner with internet through the Ethernet port of the laptop. I'm not sure why, but the miner starts beeping after a few minutes (I assume from not being connected to the internet), I finally messed with the laptop enough that when I run the miner, it doesn't beep any longer, but at the same time I'm not sure if that means it's working because I still can't connect to the miner. Right now I have the Ethernet port with the static IPv4 address of 192.168.1.33 . I'm self taught on most networking stuff so I could very well be wrong, but I thought that meant I was assigning whatever was connected to the Ethernet port the IP address of 192.168.1.33? I would appreciate any help on this matter as I obviously have no idea what I'm doing. If I need to provide any further information I would be more than happy too!
Thanks for your time!