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Alternatively, use laptop as AP.
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I'm not really clear about your setup. At one point you seem to say that the laptop is serving as a wireless AP, and in another place it seems like there's a separate AP.

Run Telegram between the PC and the phone and run Wireshark on the PC. In normal use, your wireless AP is not going to repeat traffic destined for other devices to the PC you're using to run Wireshark.

If you must have two phones, you could associate them with two different access points and put a hub (not a switch) in the middle. Then connect the PC to the hub.

Edit: After I've read a little more about Telegram, it seems the clients do not talk to each other, they talk to Telegram's servers. So, you will need something like this:   

Diagram showing capture of Telegram packets

If you run Wireshark on the laptop in promiscuous mode, you should be able to see the packets from the phone headed to the Telegram servers.

Note that the connection in the middle must be a hub, not a switch. You should be able to use two or more phones with this setup; I expect you'll see both talking to Telegram's server, and not to each other.

Alternatively, at least with Windows 7, you can turn the laptop itself into an access point. A Google searh will find instructions; one such is here:http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-xp-7-8/968-windows-7-access-point.html With the laptop serving as an AP, and connected to the gateway network using a wired connection, is is possible that Wireshark in promiscuous mode might be able to see traffic passing from the wireless radio to the wired Ethernet. If you can put your hands on an Ethernet hub, try the method shown in the diagram. I am sure that'll work.

I'm not really clear about your setup. At one point you seem to say that the laptop is serving as a wireless AP, and in another place it seems like there's a separate AP.

Run Telegram between the PC and the phone and run Wireshark on the PC. In normal use, your wireless AP is not going to repeat traffic destined for other devices to the PC you're using to run Wireshark.

If you must have two phones, you could associate them with two different access points and put a hub (not a switch) in the middle. Then connect the PC to the hub.

Edit: After I've read a little more about Telegram, it seems the clients do not talk to each other, they talk to Telegram's servers. So, you will need something like this:  Diagram showing capture of Telegram packets

If you run Wireshark on the laptop in promiscuous mode, you should be able to see the packets from the phone headed to the Telegram servers.

Note that the connection in the middle must be a hub, not a switch. You should be able to use two or more phones with this setup; I expect you'll see both talking to Telegram's server, and not to each other.

I'm not really clear about your setup. At one point you seem to say that the laptop is serving as a wireless AP, and in another place it seems like there's a separate AP.

Run Telegram between the PC and the phone and run Wireshark on the PC. In normal use, your wireless AP is not going to repeat traffic destined for other devices to the PC you're using to run Wireshark.

If you must have two phones, you could associate them with two different access points and put a hub (not a switch) in the middle. Then connect the PC to the hub.

Edit: After I've read a little more about Telegram, it seems the clients do not talk to each other, they talk to Telegram's servers. So, you will need something like this: 

Diagram showing capture of Telegram packets

If you run Wireshark on the laptop in promiscuous mode, you should be able to see the packets from the phone headed to the Telegram servers.

Note that the connection in the middle must be a hub, not a switch. You should be able to use two or more phones with this setup; I expect you'll see both talking to Telegram's server, and not to each other.

Alternatively, at least with Windows 7, you can turn the laptop itself into an access point. A Google searh will find instructions; one such is here:http://www.firewall.cx/microsoft-knowledgebase/windows-xp-7-8/968-windows-7-access-point.html With the laptop serving as an AP, and connected to the gateway network using a wired connection, is is possible that Wireshark in promiscuous mode might be able to see traffic passing from the wireless radio to the wired Ethernet. If you can put your hands on an Ethernet hub, try the method shown in the diagram. I am sure that'll work.

Added diagram and explanation.
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I'm not really clear about your setup. At one point you seem to say that the laptop is serving as a wireless AP, and in another place it seems like there's a separate AP.

RunRun Telegram between the PC and the phone and run Wireshark on the PC. In normal use, your wireless AP is not going to repeat traffic destined for other devices to the PC you're using to run Wireshark.

If you must have two phones, you could associate them with two different access points and put a hub (not a switch) in the middle. Then connect the PC to the hub.

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Note that the connection in the middle must be a hub (not, not a switch) in the middle. Then connect the PC You should be able to the hubuse two or more phones with this setup; I expect you'll see both talking to Telegram's server, and not to each other.

I'm not really clear about your setup. At one point you seem to say that the laptop is serving as a wireless AP, and in another place it seems like there's a separate AP.

Run Telegram between the PC and the phone and run Wireshark on the PC. In normal use, your wireless AP is not going to repeat traffic destined for other devices to the PC you're using to run Wireshark.

If you must have two phones, you could associate them with two different access points and put a hub (not a switch) in the middle. Then connect the PC to the hub.

I'm not really clear about your setup. At one point you seem to say that the laptop is serving as a wireless AP, and in another place it seems like there's a separate AP.

Run Telegram between the PC and the phone and run Wireshark on the PC. In normal use, your wireless AP is not going to repeat traffic destined for other devices to the PC you're using to run Wireshark.

If you must have two phones, you could associate them with two different access points and put a hub (not a switch) in the middle. Then connect the PC to the hub.

Edit: After I've read a little more about Telegram, it seems the clients do not talk to each other, they talk to Telegram's servers. So, you will need something like this: Diagram showing capture of Telegram packets

If you run Wireshark on the laptop in promiscuous mode, you should be able to see the packets from the phone headed to the Telegram servers.

Note that the connection in the middle must be a hub, not a switch. You should be able to use two or more phones with this setup; I expect you'll see both talking to Telegram's server, and not to each other.

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I'm not really clear about your setup. At one point you seem to say that the laptop is serving as a wireless AP, and in another place it seems like there's a separate AP.

Run Telegram between the PC and the phone and run Wireshark on the PC. In normal use, your wireless AP is not going to repeat traffic destined for other devices to the PC you're using to run Wireshark.

If you must have two phones, you could associate them with two different access points and put a hub (not a switch) in the middle. Then connect the PC to the hub.