Dial Up Internet Sharing Using a Router--Help Needed!!

[babock]

I have purchased a Linksys Wireless WRT54G router and a Linksys
Wireless WMP54G PCI Adapter for my second computer. I hook up to the
router with my computer that has dial up service. I would like to
share that internet connection with the computer that has the PCI
adapter in it. I can talk between both computers for sharing files but
I can not get the computer with the PCI card to access the internet
connection.

I used to have these 2 computer hooked together with network adapters
and the Inernet Connection Sharing worked great. Am I stuck? I have
heard I cannot share a dial up connection through a router.

Please help!!

Thanks in advance
Bruce

 

[CheshireCat]

I have purchased a Linksys Wireless WRT54G router and a Linksys
Wireless WMP54G PCI Adapter for my second computer. I hook up to the
router with my computer that has dial up service. I would like to
share that internet connection with the computer that has the PCI
adapter in it. I can talk between both computers for sharing files but
I can not get the computer with the PCI card to access the internet
connection.

I used to have these 2 computer hooked together with network adapters
and the Inernet Connection Sharing worked great. Am I stuck? I have
heard I cannot share a dial up connection through a router.

Please help!!

Thanks in advance
Bruce

Should you be using a router with this setup? Routers are usually used for
connecting to a broadband connection. I think you should have bought a
wireless bridge unless you're thinking of upgrading to broadband later.
Try turning off DHCP on the router and give it a static IP eg 192.168.0.2.
Make sure the dialup pc is plugged into a regular lan socket on the router
(and not the WAN socket) in an attempt to make the router behave only as a
switch.
Set up ICS server on the dialup pc. The dialup pc will then have ip
192.168.0.1 and be acting as dhcp server.

I don't know if you can reserve IP addresses with ICS dhcp (you'd need to
reserve the router's IP to prevent duplication with the 2nd pc ) but you may
have to give the other PC a static IP address and statically assign DNS
servers to it too.

 

[Rick]

Hi

I just attempted to do the same thing unsuccessfully with a Linksys router I
had. However I returned it to Best Buy and got a Dlink router and done what
was Mr Cheshirecat advised and it worked fine. The only difference was I
set my router to a .99 address to keep my self form getting confused. I
wished I had his simple but correct directions when I set mine up sure would
of saved some time lol

The problem I had with the Linksys router was I could not change the routers
address.

Good Luck
Rick