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Help with setting up wireless network!

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rikadik

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Hey,

Got broadband switched on today (DSL) and had big plans. I have a Buffalo Airstation WBR2-G54, and was planning on plugging in straight into the Modem which the broadbanmd provider delivered today, and then we could share the broadband connection wirelessly.

BUT... the modem they sent was a USB modem, and now I'm truly stuck.

Two wireless laptops pick up the router, so it works, but it has no internet connection to share.

We installed the USB modem on my PC, and tried plugging in the router to the PC and creating a wireless network (using the wizard). We did this but it still does not work!

Can anyone help? (apart from going out and buying a modem with an ethernet connection or getting an ADSL router)?
 
Where are you located and who is your provider? That is some bullsh!t if you ask me... I would say you can keep that sh!t get me a new 1... but that's just me...
 
Im in the UK so it probably wouldn't help.

I've managed to get a network up and running, but for some reason its not actually sharing the connection (which is set to shared).
 
ADSL router? You'd have the same problem. Unless you mean you'd replace the current modem with a modem/router combo.

Anyway, if you want to use ICS and a host computer to share your connection that is do-able. Frankly I would demand an ethernet modem from your provider however in lieu of that:

USB modem into USB port on your machine. Right click that connection in the network properties and click share (I believe it is share. search Internet connection sharing in windows Help for step by step instructions). This will automatically take control of the other network interface, an ethernet card. You'll need a wired NIC in the the host machine.

Then ethernet cable from the NIC to the Router/AP combo unit, the airstation. This would go to a LAN port, not the internet/WAN port. The airstation needs to have auto MDI/MDX on it, or you would need an ethernet crossover cable instead of a straight through. My guess is you can use either, meaning it would be auto MDI/MDX. Or if it actually has an uplink port, rare and probably not on a router's switch anyway, you could uplink to that.

Turn DHCP off on the buffalo. That's it. It is now simply an AP with no routing functionality. The host computer will handle that role, as well as acting as the DHCP server.

The easiest thing would probably be to just go get an ethernet modem.
 
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