Re: Wireless solution for dial-up connection
- From: "me here" <gloaming_agnet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 31 Jan 2006 11:29:34 +1050
Jonathan L. Parker wrote:
> duncan.clarke@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > I currently have an old PC, with an on-board modem and a standard
> > dial-up connection (live in the sticks, so no broadband available).
> > I want a new PC, and have decided to buy a laptop instead of a
> > desktop.
> >
> > I
> > want to know what my options are for using a wireless device to
> > browse the internet wirelessly from my shiny, new laptop, anywhere
> > in the house. I am aware that the connection will be slow, but I'm
> > guessing no slower than if I was using wires, and since broadband
> > isn't an option, speed is not an issue.
>
> If the desktop has a network adapter and is running Windows 98
> Ssecond Edition or later, you can just set up Internet Connection
> Sharing on it and plug its network card into one of the ports on a
> wireless router. If the operating system is older than that, I'd
> probably consider popping for a router like the AlwaysOn WiFlyer that
> has a built-in modem rather than hassle with trying to set up the
> desktop as a proxy server. It can be done, but as someone who's
> done it I can say that I don't think it's worth the aggravation. If
> a modem-equipped router as cheap as the WiFlyer had been around when
> I did this, I'm not sure I would have bothered.
I went down this path, sharing my 54k dial up with 2 desktop PCs and a
laptop.
You can set it up as suggested above, but it means you have to run the
host PC when sharing....a bit of a pain.
The way I do it was suggested in previous postings on this subject.
Basically you will have to buy a secondhand 54K LAN modem and hang a
wireless access point off that. Both are left running as required.
My setup is a secondhand 3COM888 LAN modem router ($30 Aus off Ebay)
with a Belkin 54G wireles router hanging off it as the access point
(about $40 AUS).
Only the router in the 3COM is used.
The 3COM is actually a pretty handy unit, NAT etc.
Running this setup works great. There is no loss of (sic) speed with
the dialup.
You can also have auto or manual connect. I use manual.
The 3COM886 and 888 both will do the job. The 888 is a dual modem
unit, but works OK in single line setup. Neither are still in
production.
The beauty of the above setup is that you can also run WPA-PSK security
across your WIFI network, which you can't do with the Wiflier (WEP
only).
I hope this helps.
Cheers
Rob
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