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Wirelessly Connect with old school 56k modem?

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UNHDeadman

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Back home my folks are connecting to the internet with an old school 56k modem and I would like to wirelessly connect them to the internet, let them share the printer, share files etc. Can this "easily" be done with the routers out there today. I was looking at the older Belkin 802.11g Wireless DSL/Cable Gateway Router. But as the name states its a DSL/Cable router. Could I use a server (with modem and ethernet card) that connects to the telephone jack and then daisy chain the server to the router? Would that work and with the proxy server software out there? Thanks.
 
you want a computer connected to the net via dialup, to share its connection wirelessly? Yea, that would work fine. It would prolly be easiest if the server was connected on the WAN side of the router and then the router could hand out IPs automaticly, but you could set it all up on the lan side if you manually configured IPs and set the dialup server as the gateway ip.

also there are gateways that have a modem built in too. I know 2 wire makes one. That way you dont need one computer running all the time.
 
Thanks JeffMD. I'd prefer not having one computer running all the time. Are there any wireless systems with a 56k modem still built in? I did some searching on-line and that appeared to be too archaic for the market now. Something with a transfer rate of 54Mbps would be nice and in that range was were I did my looking. Maybe I need to be more flexible? Also, what do you mean by "2 wire makes one". Thanks for your help.
 
um, what about getting DSL or Cable? unless it isn't availible in their area, paying 20 bucks for the likes of MSN and AOL is riddiculous when phone companies like Verizon and Bell South have DSL pacakges for 30 dollars a month
but if its 56k it must be, then it'll probably end up where one pc is connecting and also has a LAN card and has ICS enabled. it'll be connected to a wireless router, and then that'll stream the signal allover the house, although sharing a 56k connection sounds a rather odd
 
plenty of 9.95 services these days sheik.

Along time ago 2wire's home portal used dialup ports, but now its just dsl. :/ I was unable to find any 56k portals on a google search either.
 
have you checked the dsl low end? you should, its cheap now! they don't need anything more then the lowest package. and then they will have the options of web conferencing and all that goodness without blocking their phone. it opens a whole new way of using the net the always on bit. makes justifying a wireless network much easier to boot.
 
Originally posted by: JeffMD
plenty of 9.95 services these days sheik.

Along time ago 2wire's home portal used dialup ports, but now its just dsl. :/ I was unable to find any 56k portals on a google search either.
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That's exactly why my folks use a dial-up connection. They'd rather pay 10 bucks over the 55 bucks per month (after the few months of promo's) for adelphia out here in the boonies of New Hampshire. If it was $20/month or even $30/month they could swing that. Oh well. Dial-up it'll be. Thanks for the help guys.
 
Hi all. First time here. I'm like UNHDeadman's folks. I'm retired, living in the Sierra's and I connect to the internet via an antiquated 56K modem that never exceeds 26.4. There is no cable, I'm too far away from the switching station for even low end DSL and I can't afford satellite on my meager fixed income. SBC has no intentions of upgrading the system in the foreseeable future. It's all I've got to work with. The situation: My telephone line connects to an internal 56K modem on my new 3.0, XP Pro PC. It is connected to a D-Link 614+ wireless router via a Cat 5 cable. I have an 18 month old Toshiba 2.4 XP Home that has a D-Link wireless 650+ card plugged into the side of it. I had a local guy set up this system and was happily wireless throughout my home for over a year. I could transfer files between the PC and laptop and the laptop browsed the internet through the PC. Recently, I went on a vacation and took the laptop with me to maintain email contact. Upon returning I reconnected the laptop and restored the files sharing aspect but something went awry. After more than a month of struggling I still cannot get the laptop to connect to the internet. When I run the XP Pro ICS Wizard or the D-Link Setup Wizard I get a message warning me the operation could not be completed because of an IP Address conflict. After much researching on the internet I understand the PC MUST use 192.168.0.1 but the router's default IP address is that also. I've changed the routers IP address but that didn't work. I've experimented with so many variations I don't know what all I done...but nothing has worked so far. I've followed the recommended set up using DHCP enabled but I'm thinking that's not going to work. It appears to me I need to set up static IP addresses but I don't know how to do that with the three components; the PC, the router and the laptop. Can you advise me of what to do next?
 
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