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post #1 of 10
11/29/03 at 1:25pm
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I recently purchased a 4760. Fantastic machine! Unfortunately, neither cable nor dsl is available at my house. I would like to set up wireless access to my dial-up account. Does anyone know of a wireless router that has integrated dial-up access? Barring that, how about a CHEAP wired router with dial-up access (then I can add a WAP)?

I have searched on the web and found references to expensive (Apple Airport), technical (TechTV article), and outdated (various routers no longer sold) solutions. An inexpensive wireless (b or g) router that supports ethernet and phone WAN connections would be great.

Any suggestions?
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post #2 of 10
11/29/03 at 1:40pm
I only know of the Apple Airport Extreme being able to do that.

There's also this option...

Put a wireless card in a desktop PC that is connected to the phone line. Set up an Ad Hoc network so your lappy can connect to the desktop. Use Windows's built-in Internet Connection Sharing feature, or a good program like Kerio's WinRoutePro. That will enable you to have a wireless router with dialup access. If you want to control that computer, put VNC on it so that you can connect to it and tell it to get online. Grok?
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post #3 of 10
11/29/03 at 3:03pm
Yupp, a small 486/Pentium box with 64MB RAM and a distro of linux will make a great router, and could be upgraded later if/when you get DSL/Cable.
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post #4 of 10
11/29/03 at 4:29pm
This is the setup I use: ( Works well for me )
P2 Desktop found in the trash connected to phone line.
Wireless Access Point connected to Desktop.
Install PROXY server on Desktop from http://www.analogx.com
Install Remote Disconnection Utility from http://www.twiga.ltd.uk/downloads.asp on both computers. This allows you to remote dial the modem on the Desktop from your laptop.

I am running Win98 on both computers so if your running XP or something you may
not need to run the PROXY server on the desktop. ( not sure ).

The remote disconnection utility works with Earthlink but not Peoplepc because
PeoplePC uses a proprietary dialer.

To make a long story short, when I had Earthlink I was able to use the remote dialer
which was wonderful but, now I just run over to the desktop and start the dialer
myself.

BTW: This is my first post and been reading the forum for about 2 months and was ready to buy the 4760 then the 4780 and now waiting for the 8790.
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post #5 of 10
11/29/03 at 7:18pm
i would not even go with the wireless router. I would not go with a router if I were you. Just run off a phone line. Too much money to spend surfing at such a slow speed. Then you also have the small data loss due to router and you're down to 2kbyte downloads. I understand your frustration with the slow net, but my advice is to just hardwire both your computers to a phone line, same line of course, and just use one at a time, since if you had both connected it would take you half a year to load up webpages anyway.
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post #6 of 10
11/29/03 at 8:29pm
I' am using a network switch with a wireless access point. Considering the network is at 10Mbits and dialup is at (56K at best) the network will be faster than the modem. I personally don't see any speed decrease accessing the Internet through my 3 node home network. Network packet lengths are longer and it is extra data being transferred back and forth between computers but, at 10 or 100 Mbits (b or g) you will not notice any slowdown over a 56K dialup. The bottleneck is the modem not the network.

If you go with a wireless router, although you don't need it for dialup, you are setup for the future when you have access to DSL or CABLE.

This also allows you to have multiple people accessing the Internet at the same time from different computers over one phone line, this is where you will see things slow down.

For a few $ you can sit on the couch and surf the NET and have access to your hard drive on the Desktop for aux storage and It's fun to play around with your own personal home network. IMO: It's worth the money.
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post #7 of 10
11/29/03 at 8:37pm
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Originally Posted by Eric
I recently purchased a 4760. Fantastic machine! Unfortunately, neither cable nor dsl is available at my house. I would like to set up wireless access to my dial-up account. Does anyone know of a wireless router that has integrated dial-up access? Barring that, how about a CHEAP wired router with dial-up access (then I can add a WAP)?

I have searched on the web and found references to expensive (Apple Airport), technical (TechTV article), and outdated (various routers no longer sold) solutions. An inexpensive wireless (b or g) router that supports ethernet and phone WAN connections would be great.

Any suggestions?
You know what your cheapest, and easiest option is? Bluetooth.

You can get a bluetooth modem, and use bluetooth with your laptop.
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post #8 of 10
11/29/03 at 8:52pm
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Originally Posted by Divine_Madcat
You know what your cheapest, and easiest option is? Bluetooth.

You can get a bluetooth modem, and use bluetooth with your laptop.

That sounds cool, I've been staying away from Bluetooth because it just seems like it's a protocol that isn't going anywhere fast. May be gone or morph into something else in the future.

What's you opinion?
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post #9 of 10
11/29/03 at 10:33pm
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Originally Posted by MR4A494D4C
That sounds cool, I've been staying away from Bluetooth because it just seems like it's a protocol that isn't going anywhere fast. May be gone or morph into something else in the future.

What's you opinion?

I foresee a second gen BT comng around, to fix the problems with the first.

Regardless, BT will work perfectly for this application as it is now..
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post #10 of 10
11/29/03 at 11:40pm
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Originally Posted by ryanniedz
i would not even go with the wireless router. I would not go with a router if I were you. Just run off a phone line. Too much money to spend surfing at such a slow speed. Then you also have the small data loss due to router and you're down to 2kbyte downloads. I understand your frustration with the slow net, but my advice is to just hardwire both your computers to a phone line, same line of course, and just use one at a time, since if you had both connected it would take you half a year to load up webpages anyway.
Routers would only add overhead on the LAN side, so therefore would have noeffect on speed. However, if multiple people were using a single 56k connection, well u already have no bandwidth...so kiss no bandwidth goodbye! Bandwidth to the negative second power..hehehe
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