Using an old computer for a wireless router

[episodic]

I've got to move where I'm going to probably go back to dialup. I want to keep wireless freedom with my laptop at the very least.

Wireless routers generally don't support modems at all or only as an after thought.

Could I just use an old pc, place a pci wireless nic in it in ad hoc mode, and share the dial up to that nic?

I've got two laptops that I'd like served, sometimes at the same time - will this work with the ad hoc connection sharing?

 

[JackMDS]

You can do it for sure between you Internet capable computer and one more computer.

There might be few Wireless Cards the can do ad- hoc with more then one computers.

If you are Using ?Penquin Box? you can actually turn the card into Access Point.

There is a vendor that sells some thing like this for windows but it id too expensive, it will be less expensive to buy a Wireless Cable/DSL Router that has a serial port, add to it an External Dialup modem and share the Normal Way both Wire and Wireless.

P.S. Some Wireless hardware might have difficulties sharing with ICS.

Under such a situation this usually works: AnalogX Proxy.

:sun:

 

[Goosemaster]

As Jack stated, the cards will have to be in ad-hoc mode if you want to communicate between them. Windows ICS(internet connection sharing) should be able to route it to the dialup connection easily.

*nix is nice too.....try astaro security linux with that. It is a commerical ( free for personal use) Linux Firewall and routing OS which will give you a fairly simple and even advanced AP setup depending on your needs. It requires you to read a manual, but after some simple instructions, the entire setup is done via a nice web-interface.