Help with home network

[neonfiremanqtip]

Hello,

A friend lives out in the sticks with no broadband access, and thus only has a dialup connection. He wants to set up a wireless home network sharing the 56k connection. I haven't run into this exact situation before and am not quite sure how to proceed.

Friend has 2 desktop computers (on opposite sides of house... so no wired computer-to- computer ICS option here) and a wireless router.

So, is it possible to have a computer connect with dialup modem, then use ICS to share connection to a router, which then shares the connection wirelessly to any other machine?

And will the machine that does *not* have the modem still be able to force the modem to dial when it tries to connection to the internet? (I know this can be done easily when using a computer-to-computer wired ICS option).

Thanks!

 

[JackMDS]

If your friend can afford to spend few $$ the best solution under this circumstances is the second option here, http://www.ezlan.net/DialUp.html

:sun:

 

[neonfiremanqtip]

Thanks!

 

[Atheus]

Or if you don't want to buy anything you can set both machines up on the same subnet then connect both to the router. Set the gateway on the non-modem-machine to the modem-machine's ip and have the modem-machine route out to the net. The wireless router would just act as a switch in this case, (the modem-machine would be your router) so you might want to just connect the two wireless cards together without using it.