Ricochet Home Networking?

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Does anyone know how to set up a home network with a USB external Ricochet
GS
modem.

I tried ICS with Win2000 and I could not get it to work. (disabled
firewall, yes)

I have a Linksys Broadband wireless router with two Win2000 PCs directly
cabled to it, and a laptop that connects to the network with a wireless
connection.

Can I use a Linksys USB 2.0/Ethernet Adapter to connect the USB modem
directly to the broadband router's ethernet internet port? Then setup the
router to dial the modem when an application demands an internet connection?
Or just leave the Ricochet modem always connected? This way I would not
have to leave a host PC powered on for others to access the internet (as I
would have to if I could get ICS to work).

The Linksys router designed specifically to use the Ricochet internal modem
card is not available anymore I have been told.

Thanks for any advice.

Wes
San Diego, CA
(e-mail address removed) Delete nospam. to reply directly. Thank you.

 

[Steven Umbach]

I am not a big fan of ICS, but I understand there are not as many options for
dial up. You should be able to get ICS to work. You would need to disable dhcp
on your wireless router and configure it's lan IP address to be some thing other
than the default gateway address that the ICS computer uses such as 192.168.0.5
assuming that ICS is using 192.168.0.xxx as the network address. What you would
have to do is connect the dial up modem directly to the computer that has ICS
enabled and then the other two computers need to use the ICS computer as their
default gateway which is 192.168.0.1 or such. I think that if they are dhcp
enable they should automatically get the correct info to use for ICS from the
ICS enabled computer. I don't think the USB/RJ45 adapter will work as the modem
is probably using the USB connection as an interface to the hardware on the
computer like a serial port would that is typically used and not for direct
network access like a RJ45 jack. There are cable/dsl routers available that have
a DB9 serial interface for an external dialup modem such as the D-Link DI-804HV
that sells for less than $60. The DB9 serial interface is for "backup" but I
don't see why it would not work for full duty if dial up is all that a user
has.The links below may help. --- Steve

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/ics/ics_win2k_install_dup.htm
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/ics/ics_win2k_client.htm
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=33-127-030&depa=5
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307311