I'm thinking of becoming a 1 modem ISP... my laptop to my desktop.

[bupkus]

I'm thinking of using my desktop as a one person ISP. What software and hardware would I need to be able to do this. Also, if I dial-up to my desktop and it has a cable modem and the mainboard has WOM, can I access the internet and how? How would V.92 figure into this and who makes the phone modems I would need?

 

[caballo]

What do you meam by "becoming an ISP". You can access your remote computer with PC Anywhere or similar software. If you want to access the Internet from your laptop through your other PC you may use Internet Connection Sharing (there are plenty of programs including ICS of Win 98.
Please explain your project and I may be able to give you a more concrete answer or say that I am lost

 

[Zenmervolt]

If you want to swap files between your laptop and desktop, modem is not the way to go, you would be better off getting a 10/100 network card for both the laptop and the desktop, then using a crossover cable to connect the two. Any local computer shop ought to be able to walk you through it from there. I'd even say that you'd be better off with the above set-up for internet connection sharing, because it will eliminate almost all possibility of lag between the laptop and the desktop.

Zenmervolt

 

[noninterleaved]

If I follow correctly, he wants to leave his computer at home with the cable modem on all the time, listening to the phone. When he calls from zimbabwe or whereever from his laptop, he wants to computer at home to pick up, and then hook him up to the internet.

I have no idea on how to go about doing this... but maybe PCAnywhere will let you do it... I am pretty sure it lets you dial in to administer your computer (get files, etc...) but I dunno about ICS through a dial up connection.

 

[Windogg]

Freesco

 

[bupkus]

I'm sorry about my post. Apparently I didn't make clear my intended use. Let me try again.

I have a cablemodem at home. I need to keep expenses down so I don't want to contract an additional dial up service like aol or whatever.

I also have a little office a mile away from home. Sometimes I need to check some pricing or track a delivery on the internet. I want to dial to my home pc, connect, and access the internet.

I want to be sure if I let my nephew connect to the internet from my office he can't mess with my files, just get passed to the internet. Obviously, I don't want to use PCanywhere.

Side issue: does the V.92 allow using the phone without disrupting the internet connection? What if my wife wants to use the phone while I'm connected to the internet from the office? Do they cost alot?

Edit: I just realized something. This is just getting too complicated. As an academic question this is interesting, but it just may prove too costly $$ and the overhead and restrictions of line usage may be too much. Please answer because there may be an upside I didn't think of.

 

[noninterleaved]

Have you considered a free dialup ISP??

NetZero will let you connect and have something like 5 hours of online time a month, probably plenty to do a little business sometimes. The only problem is the damn ads.

I dunno what other free ISPs there are out there. I seem to remember a big freeISP shakeout a couple of months ago, and lots of the remaining ones were switching over towards more of a little for free, lots for cheap pricing model.

 

[Madcowz]

I believe this wouldn't work, however the simple solution would be to sign up for a free internet service such as netzero. You'd have to deal with the ad banners, but that should only be a minor inconveniency.

*EDIT* noninterleaved: darn, you beat me to it!

 

[rockhard]

U should be able to do this if you run Win2K Server and have a go at sussing out how to setup VPN (Virtual Private Networking).
Fraid i havent got to playing with this yet, so cant help.
If you can setup VPN and set it up so that the remote node gets its IP by DHCP from the server, then theres no reason why u cannot use the servers IP as a gateway to the net via your cable modem using NAT.
It should be as easy as dialing up your home network and then launching IE as if you were at home on your lan sharing into the net connection.

If you dont get any joy, might be worth u posting in the Networking/Operating System Forum.

Good Luck,

rockhard =)