Using a router on a dial up connection

[leeland]

I would think that networking them together is no biggy for all his computers on the router...what I am wondering though is how to get all the computers hooked up so that they can share an internet connection.

He is on Dial-up so would the dial up connection have to run through one machine and then to the router which would feed all the other computers ?

Is this where Microsofts internet connection sharing comes into play ?

Any advice is appreciated

Thanks

leeland

p.s. the computer(s) are XP pro I believe

 

[sswingle]

Use a switch and share the modem connection with XP Pro

-or-

Get a router that has a plugin for a dialup modem

 

[leeland]

Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers
Use a switch and share the modem connection with XP Pro

-or-

Get a router that has a plugin for a dialup modem

I did not know they made such routers for dial-up networking....

Can you use the router still and do ICS ? This is how I would envision the setup.

phoneline to one computer, then a cat5 to the router from the first computer. Then all the other computers plug into the router.

Then you have to config the internet on each computer to go through the first computer. The first computer always has to be on to get the connection to the internet.


Does that seem logical ?

 

[sswingle]

Originally posted by: leeland

Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers
Use a switch and share the modem connection with XP Pro

-or-

Get a router that has a plugin for a dialup modem

I did not know they made such routers for dial-up networking....

Can you use the router still and do ICS ? This is how I would envision the setup.

phoneline to one computer, then a cat5 to the router from the first computer. Then all the other computers plug into the router.

Then you have to config the internet on each computer to go through the first computer. The first computer always has to be on to get the connection to the internet.


Does that seem logical ?

If you use ICS, you do not need a router, the machine with the modem running ICS becomes your router, and also a DHCP server.

Oh, and yes, there are routers out there with a serial COM port to plug a modem into

 

[JackMDS]

May be this can Help, Sharing the Internet with DialUp Connection.

:sun:

 

[leeland]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
May be this can Help, Sharing the Internet with DialUp Connection.

:sun:

Jackpot...thanks for the link