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    How do I share a dial-up conection?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by pcharouz, Feb 22, 2006.

  1. pcharouz

    pcharouz Notebook Evangelist

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    I will be moving to a new house next week and it will take a few days before I get internet there. On my laptop, in school or anywhere outside my house I use a dial-up connection throu my cellphone, (t-mobile 20dollars a month). And I was wondering If I could share that connection on my network (3 computers and a wifi/g router).
     
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    I read that but it didnt help me a lot
     
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    Well, that's all there is to it. If you're having a specific problem, maybe you should provide some information on where you're having a problem? You may also want to check out HowardForums.com and search for 'tethering' in your proider's or cell phone's forum.
     
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    Well, I tried to just set it up in the properties of the dial-up connection, but that didnt work, then I used the Windows wirelles wizard that give me a file to install on the other computer too, but that didnt work either (at least there was a new icon "global.." or something). Maybie I have to set up someting in the router? (I have a D-Link "DI-524")
     
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    I'm thinking that you need to build an Ad Hoc network on the wireless card. I don't know if that could be done with wired connections though.
     
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    There are two ways of doing it:

    1. Set one computer as ICS host (and DHCP server), and turn off the DHCP server in your router. The easiest way to make your computer as ICS host is to run network setup wizard from control panel. Also run network wizard on other computers and set them up as ICS clients. The drawback of this method is that the ICS host need to be always on so other computers can be networked and share internet.

    2. Similar to the above, but make the router as DHCP server. This way you still need the ICS host to be on for sharing internet, but turning off the ICS host won't stop the rest of network. The computers are setup just like the above, no changes are neccessary, but the router setup is a bit more complicated. I don't know about your Dlink router, but this is how I set my Linksys WRT54G using tofu firmware:
    - Enable DHCP server
    - Disable internet because I use internal winmodem at ICS host
    - Router IP address: 192.168.0.2
    - LAN gateway: 192.168.0.1 (your ICS host)
    - LAN DNS: 192.168.0.1
    - Change the router operating mode from gateway to router.
    - Set static DHCP for the ICS host's MAC to 192.168.0.1

    Hope it would work for you.
     
    Ivory, Feb 23, 2006
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