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Need Advice on Home Networking with a WISP connection

308nato

308nato

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We live in the boonies and my dear old ma has wireless internet service. The signal comes from an antenna on top of a grain elevator about 6 miles away. Basically, she has an antenna connected to one of these by way of a cable. The cable is connected to where one of the antenna's would be located on the Cisco card.

She would like to network a couple of other pc's so the broadband is available to all as well as share a printer. I have no idea how to go about this. I don't think wireless is in her budget, and I am guessing there might be issues with interference with the WISP which is 2.4ghz 802.11b.

I would be grateful for any insight into what the best way to do this would be. What hardware, etc. I can't seem to find a router/hub thingie😛that has the proper jack for the cable so there must be some piece of hardware that accepts the coax in and has RJ45 out. Sorry about the network newbness.

Thanks,
Dan
 
Ask the ISP if they have any network bridges they could trade you. Without a network bridge, which goes from wireless to RJ45, you will have to leave the computer with the wireless card on all the time so people can get on the internet. The routers you are looking at are not designed for this. Ask you ISP for a bridge. What you can do depends on what they say.
 
Originally posted by: amdfanboy
Ask the ISP if they have any network bridges they could trade you. Without a network bridge, which goes from wireless to RJ45, you will have to leave the computer with the wireless card on all the time so people can get on the internet. The routers you are looking at are not designed for this. Ask you ISP for a bridge. What you can do depends on what they say.
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Thanks. I really wanted to avoid involving their "help" desk, but, so be it. So, after the bridge, I will assume the rest will work as a standard network setup.

"Has anybody seen the bridge ?" (poor Zeppelin humor....sorry🙂
 
Yes after you get a bridge, all you need is a wired router , then you can hook the computers up to the LAN ports of the router and the bridge to the WAN port.
 
What you want, using Cisco terminology, is a workgroup bridge, not a straight up bridge. A WET11 for instance. Problem is bridging doesn't adhere to the 802.11b standard. Uses the same technology but doesn't have to be compatible with other Mfg's hardware. A WET11 does pretty well with cross vendor wireless solutions though. Since you have a Cisco card they may try to sell/rent you a WBR350 CIsco workgroup bridge. Very expensive piece of hardware. The problem with not using their solution is they may, hopefully do, control access by various ways, MAC filtering being one of them. You'd only be able to associate to the AP with a specific MAC address. Good news is the WET11 should allow you to spoof that 350 series client card. ipconfig /all from a command prompt will give you it's MAC. Frankly, even though I prefer a dedicated router, your probably much better off putting a second NIC in the host machine and sharing the connection out that way. 15 bucks for a wired NIC and I'd go with a proxy solution that is not Microsofts. WinProxy, Sygate, etc...
 
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