HOW-TO: Wireless Dial-up - Page 3

I tried, unfortunently the router is supposed to connect to the internet when you plug it into the cable/dsl and update itself/perform setup. It wont do this when I use the computer in the internet input, even with ICS on.

I am at the point were I'm almost ready to run cat 6 through my 150° attic and instal a bunch of rj45 plates and use a hub.

Perhaps I will look for some linksys routers on ebay when I get home though.

Recomend any /g ones for this type of setup?

thanks for the info I'll look into getting one cheap.

Sucks I spent $100 on this Netgear one and can't return it. Dont think i'll buy anything from them again.

I'm still not buying from D-Link from having so many problems with thier NIC's back in the 90's :P

Guess Linksys is what's left haha.

Thanks & props

Thanks, mich43l.

Working with a Linksys WRT54G (v.5) router I created the wireless dialup as you described. I have to reiterate for all people: check your firewall settings (turn the firewall off) if you are having problems.

Also: the router's documentation said it would not work with dialup, but, like mich43l said, the router doesn't care where the internet connection comes from, just so long as it is there. I simply connected to the internet via dialup before running the router's setup CD. I think it may have required a couple of tries because the firewall (McAfee) was complaining (because I forgot to turn it off), but eventually, after I turned the firewall off, it accepted it as if it were a high-speed connection.

Finally, once I'd followed all of mich43l's directions, I had to figure out how to put the McAfee firewall back up while not blocking the client computers. I did it by telling the firewall to allow all transmissions from the IP addresses for the two client machines, XP's ICS (which again is the unalterable 192.168.0.1), and the router's IP address. I don't know whether this is the best method, but it certainly works.

FWIW, I needed the wireless dialup b/c I sometimes share with my parents, who only have dialup, and my dad and I have wireless notebooks, so, it's just easier than fighting for a seat at the desktop.

Thanks again!

I have wireless dialup configured on my laptop via my main desktop, but the setup I'm using doesn't require a wireless router. Instead, I bought an inexpensive ($20) USB WiFi adapter, plugged it into my desktop, then connected my laptop and desktop using Ad-Hoc. I then used ICS to share my desktop's dialup connection through the WiFi, thereby allowing my laptop to connect to the internet wirelessly. Here's a crude diagram I made that kinda visualizes my setup for those who might wish to replicate it:



I didn't want to rely on the "dial on demand" feature built into Windows, because this would result in the annoying issue of my desktop trying to connect to the internet every single time a program on my laptop tried to access it (Such as my antivirus trying to update myself). I prefer more control over when the internet connection is opened or closed. So, I wrote a pair of programs, a daemon that runs full-time on the desktop, and a client that runs on the laptop whenever desired. The client tells the daemon what to do (Connect or disconnect from the internet), and the daemon does it, thereby providing me full control over when the internet is connected or disconnected. It's rather crude the method the client and daemon use to communicate (I have yet to figure out how to do true network communications in Visual Basic), but at least it works.

Very nice guide. This should really help out a lot of people.

Awesome. The stupid McAfee firewall -- you have to input each IP address one-by-one, you can't enter a range -- I think I've finally convinced my parents to ditch it. But I'm glad to know that ZoneAlarm can be configured using a range wildcard.

Well I recieved my router WRT54Gv6 and while trying to update the firmware it crashed. Next day I found out how to force it into management mode fixed the firmware and got it all set up for networking. Here's how I did it...

This is from the linksys website. I also had to set the IP's for each computer manually...

- IP Address: 192.168.0.2(.1 for primary pc.3 for third comp)
- Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
- Gateway: 192.168.0.1
- DNS: 192.168.0.1
- Click Apply then Continue

restarted them all with ICS enabled and everything worked. enabled firewalls, still worked, enabled WPA and set the passwords on all the computers and again it works, everything going well now

Re: Wireless dialup

I guess I am a little confused about the setup procedure. You say to configure the router and then when you are done to connect the ethernet cable from ICS PC to LAN on router. But if the cable isn't connected you cannot log in to the router. Am I supposed to have another different PC wired to the router in order to config it and then connect the ICS host computer or am I supposed to use the wireless connected PC to config router? I only have 2 machines, the ICS that is already connected to the router from NIC and the one that connects via wireless adapter. Is there a reason the ICS comp has to be unplugged from router when I config it or can I just leave it plugged in the whole time?

Thanks 4 your time,

oilfieldhottie

Success! My shared dial-up is working with no problem. I just wish it wouldn't have taken me so long to search out this forum with these EASY setup instructions. I spent probably 100 hours looking for a way to do this and up until now I only read that it was either impossible to do or extremely complicated-STRANGE???-it couldn't have been any easier. Even Linksys says it can't be done, I wonder why? Oh well, I see in the following post that you assigned static IP addresses to all connected PCs. Does it work better that way or is that just optional?
Thanks so much again for the simple setup that worked perfectly the first time. You guys are awesome!

oilfieldhottie

was the only way it would work for me, i was getting incompatible ip address errors.

V6 Linksys WRT54G Router frimware

I also have the same unit thanks for the advice
Do you suggest I update now? also should i change the default
address? in order to make it more secure?
again I find your information very helpful

Yes, update the firmware and tweak it a bit changing the defaults. I don't think that any change of the default IP would help (not an advocate of 'security through obscurity'), but certainly changing the ssid and everything else would.

really? i didn't know this was possible.

have to try this myself.

thank you for the post.

nice