Sharing Dial Up With Wireless

[walleymo]

What hardware would I need to wirelessly share a dial up connection? Would a router work and does it matter what kind I get?

I'm looking for a cheeper alternative to Apple's Airport.

I'm using Win 2K on the desktop and XP on the notebook.

Thanks

[Mac Medic]

edit:

Just recommended the airport. Re-read ur post and saw the airport disclaimer, Sorry, wasted post on my behalf.

[glc]

All you need are a pair of wireless cards running in "ad-hoc" (peer to peer) mode. No router or access point needed, just use ICS to share the modem connection. For what you want to do with what you have, a couple Linksys USB wireless adapters is the easiest way to go, and pretty cheap.

[LocoCoyote]

I always get the shivers when the term ICS comes up....
I have had nothing but bad expierences using it. What glc is suggesting should work. I did somethinf simular wirh my home connection.
I have DSL over ISDN thru a PPPoE interface. I put a old 386 running FreeBSD as a gateway and to control the dial-up. I hooked a Linksys broadband wire/wireless router behind the BSD box. My other computers hook to the BSD box by both wireless PC cards or cat5 connections.

[gunrunnerjohn]

If you shop around, you can perhaps find a good deal on the SMC router with dial and wireless capability. Multi-tech also sold what they called a Proxy Server that was basically a dial-up router, I have a couple warming the shelf in my closet.

[glc]

john: If you are talking about 98SE/ME, I couldn't agree with you more - ICS is horrible. However, with 2K and XP, it seems to work quite well.

BUT - be prepared for the modem to start dialing up out of the clear blue sky if you enable dial on demand.

[Mhollinr]

I'm trying to come up with a similar set-up. A friend of mine is going to have free dial-up at her apartment through her college. She isn't sure if she wants to pay for broadband though (having dial-up for free).

I'm wondering if anyone knows of any good routers that include the following:

wireless (speed isn't a major concern)
COM port to hook up an external modem if dial-up is used
Parallel port for a print server
WAN port in case broadband is used
At least 1 LAN in case a desktop is ever used (not too important)

I have found these two:

D-Link DI-714 (this is discontinued but I found it on ebay)
3Com U.S. Robotics 8022 (USR8022) Router

I haven't seen very good reviews for either one most places I checked. Does anyone know of a good one that meets the above requirements, or if either of the two above are any good?

thanks

[glc]

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProduc...127-132&depa=0

Have your wallet ready.

[Mhollinr]

Thanks, I think that's what I'm looking for.