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n0aH
05-19-06, 11:23 AM
Quick Question. is it possible to put a dial - up connection onto a router and share it across a house. Like can i make a laptop be able to wirelessly access it. Thanx guys
n0aH
05-19-06, 12:21 PM
any one know?
klingens
05-19-06, 12:25 PM
Yes you can
bchur83
05-19-06, 12:27 PM
Some routers have the capability of Dial-Up Backup, but not as a main connection. Something you could do is Windows Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) on one machine to share a Dial-Up connection.
mepis
05-19-06, 09:36 PM
Some routers have the capability of Dial-Up Backup, but not as a main connection. Something you could do is Windows Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) on one machine to share a Dial-Up connection.


This is going to be your best bet. Use ICS on one computer and then your router or hub just to network to the rest of the computers. As far as I know there arnt any routers that dial out. If you set up ICS right and depending on your ISP you could have the main computer dial up and disconnect everytime someone wnated to get on too.
TazExtreme3
05-20-06, 07:15 AM
I know smoothwall is capable of doing this, but I'm not sure about any ordinary routers having this capability
Tyrinon
05-28-06, 05:59 PM
I thought that this USR router: http://www.usr.com/products/networking/networking-product.asp?sku=USR8000A , could use a dial up as a primary shared connection. I was using one of these until a year ago (power pack died :cry: ), and it worked fine for the few years I had it. I never used the dial up port on the router b/c I didn't have an external modem back when I was on dial up service. I will dig around for the manual and check the spec for using the RS-232 port and report back if still needed...
JDXNC
05-28-06, 06:24 PM
I have my server do the dial up connection and running a DHCP software as well as ICS. From there everything connects to a Linksys WRT54G which has its DHCP turn off, other wise it tries to make everything use the internet from its WAN port which isn't connected to anything. So like that it acts just like an access point for the wireless and a switch for the wired computers.
TalRW
05-28-06, 07:34 PM
Yeah your best bet is either to have a machine running ICS with a modem or set up a smoothwall with a modem in it.
hafa
05-28-06, 07:44 PM
The D-Link 804HV (http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=1250856) can be configured to use either a 10/100 baseT connection or a serial port connected external modem as the WAN connection. I have several of these which use serial modems as backups in case the DSL fails and they work very well. They're pretty solid little routers as well; very reliable and use routing tables rather than NAT so they're quite fast.

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If you wanted to allow your laptop to access the network via wireless, you could use an access point like the DWL-G700AP (http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=3484961); just be aware of the security issues with wireless. (http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=458065)