Need step-by-step help installing Netgear WiFi to share a dial-up connection

[Huntley Meadows]

I am trying to install a WiFi network connecting an old desktop
w/Windows 95, a laptop w/Win98 and a second laptop w/Win2000. I have
purchased pieces of Netgear 811b equipment: 1. a 4-port router
(MR814 v2); 2. Two wireless adapters (PCMCIA cards) for the two
laptops; and 3. a USB adapter for the desktop (total cost of $170 or
so, with rebates uncollected).

All the instructions talk about cable modems, which I don't have. I
am on a dial-up connection. I have spent many hours but with little
success!

Can someone give me or refer me to a clear-cut set of directions to
get this working? Much appreciated.

A much-frustated WiFi wannabe

 

[Si Ballenger]

I am trying to install a WiFi network connecting an old desktop
w/Windows 95, a laptop w/Win98 and a second laptop w/Win2000. I have
purchased pieces of Netgear 811b equipment: 1. a 4-port router
(MR814 v2); 2. Two wireless adapters (PCMCIA cards) for the two
laptops; and 3. a USB adapter for the desktop (total cost of $170 or
so, with rebates uncollected).

All the instructions talk about cable modems, which I don't have. I
am on a dial-up connection. I have spent many hours but with little
success!

Can someone give me or refer me to a clear-cut set of directions to
get this working? Much appreciated.

A much-frustated WiFi wannabe

Check in the alt.internet.wireless news group (you can use google
to search it). Either you will need to buy an access point with
built in modem (like the apple airport), or use one of your
computers running a proxy and use its modem. You might could run
a free proxy like vsocks light on your win95 machine and connect
your wireless router to an ethernet in it.