Complicated Networking Problem: Sharing Dialup over Wireless Netwo

[Guest]

Here is the situation. I'm trying to share a aol dial internet connection
between 2 Computers(both have winxp home). They are stuck with dial up, and
they have a another computer ~75 feet away with a fairly good line of sight
that they want to share the connection with. Computer [A] has aol dialup and
a networking card. Computer has only a networking card. Is it possible to
share this dialup connection over a WIRELESS network? I checked under set up
new connection and it seems that you can set one up using the host computer
as a gateway.


What I would idealy like to do is to buy a router and then set up a wireless
network sort of the way you normally would wif broadband. (except that you
use Windows Internet Connection Sharing, that is the key to making this work)
So just plug PC [A] into wireless router, and then stick a Wireless
networking card in PC . IS THERE ANY REASON THAT THIS WOULD NOT WORK?

As in:

PC [A] -----ethernet cable----> Router ---Wireless 54 mbps--> PC


PC [A] (has aol dialup) (has NIC)

PC (Would have a Wireless networking card)



I have heard of people having problems with Internet Connection Sharing in
the past, and I want to make sure that this would really work reliably.
Anyone have experience with this kind of thing? With ICS?

As Long as the wireless network will work (using Internet Connection
Sharing) this is what I want to use. However if theres reason to belive that
it won't work reliably, then I need to find another way. My other ideas are:

Run long (100ft) crossover cable between the NICs but this involes putting cable in ceilings and walls and stuff, and still uses ICS which may not be reliable.

Get a spliter on the phone jack by PC [A] and Run long (100ft) phone cord down to PC Again this involves going through walls but this would avoids using ICS. Also to clarify The 2 Computers DO NOT have to be on the internet at the same time. That would be really slow anyway with dialup, they just need to be able to access the aol dial up at seperate times. ( The easy way out of all this is to get a phone jack installed by computer but that does not seem to be a option right now)

If you have any ideas please post, this is getting quite complicated.

 

[Rodney]

Hello

Sounds like a very expensive way to get a dialup shared
why not get broadband and a router then your problem is
fixed?

-----Original Message-----
Here is the situation. I'm trying to share a aol dial internet connection
between 2 Computers(both have winxp home). They are stuck with dial up, and
they have a another computer ~75 feet away with a fairly good line of sight
that they want to share the connection with. Computer [A] has aol dialup and
a networking card. Computer has only a networking card. Is it possible to
share this dialup connection over a WIRELESS network? I checked under set up
new connection and it seems that you can set one up using the host computer
as a gateway.


What I would idealy like to do is to buy a router and then set up a wireless
network sort of the way you normally would wif broadband. (except that you
use Windows Internet Connection Sharing, that is the key to making this work)
So just plug PC [A] into wireless router, and then stick a Wireless
networking card in PC . IS THERE ANY REASON THAT THIS WOULD NOT WORK?

As in:

PC [A] -----ethernet cable----> Router ---Wireless 54 mbps--> PC


PC [A] (has aol dialup) (has NIC)

PC (Would have a Wireless networking card)



I have heard of people having problems with Internet Connection Sharing in
the past, and I want to make sure that this would really work reliably.
Anyone have experience with this kind of thing? With ICS?

As Long as the wireless network will work (using Internet Connection
Sharing) this is what I want to use. However if theres reason to belive that
it won't work reliably, then I need to find another way. My other ideas are:

Run long (100ft) crossover cable between the NICs but

this involes putting cable in ceilings and walls and
stuff, and still uses ICS which may not be reliable.

Get a spliter on the phone jack by PC [A] and Run long

(100ft) phone cord down to PC Again this involves
going through walls but this would avoids using ICS. Also
to clarify The 2 Computers DO NOT have to be on the
internet at the same time. That would be really slow
anyway with dialup, they just need to be able to access
the aol dial up at seperate times. ( The easy way out of
all this is to get a phone jack installed by computer
but that does not seem to be a option right now)

 

[Guest]

this is for a small business, only broadband they can get is $100s a month,
they wont do it.