Sharing wifi connection to pc

Hello,
after exhausting searching everywhere I decided to pop the question here, not sure even if its the right section, sorry if its not.
I am trying to share my wifi connection on the N80 with my PC. I've connected the phone using USB cable, and have a Wireless network setup and working. I can connect to the wireless network with phone perfectly, but i would like to share that connection to the PC.
The Data Suite App has option to share internet connection using phone's modem, but can't it be done using WiFi, kinda like usb wifi dongle.
Perhaps some 3rd party applications exists out there?
Thanks

There is no TCP/IP network router software for the N80 that would allow you to do what you want. I'm not even sure the phone has sufficient memory and processing capability to handle such a task in any decent way.
So, if you need your PC to connect to a WLAN network, best to get a WLAN adapter for the PC.

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