can i use router for dial-up networking..?

Question

i have dial-up for internet and i decided to build a network using wireless waht should i do to connect my router to dial-up and how's the diagram..pls help

Answer 1

I have tried that before and it actually works (because most routers, even wireless ones, tend to also be wired switches as well as bridges, it's possibe to access a dial-up internet connection wirelessly from a remote pc). The computer with the dial-up internet access needs to have an ethernet card installed so it can be connected to the router. After that use the wireless pc to access the computer that has the dial-up connection (the dial up computer acts kind of like a gateway to the internet). This works well the only important thing to remember is to make sure the computer that is using dial-up has an ethernet card installed (the ethernet card allows the computer to be connected to the router). The other computers can access the router wirelessly and find the computer with the dial up connection (networking) and use it as an active internet connection.

Answer 2

Yes.

You can use your wireless router as an access point. Most routers come in "Gateway mode" by default, as they are expected to be used as the gateway into your network. However, you can usually set them to act only as a switch/AP, where they simply act as a wireless AP for your network.

Infact, this is what I do at home. Except I use a linux PC as a gateway/firewall, and my wireless router(WRT54G) is just an AP. In your case you would have to set up ICS on the PC connected to the modem to share the dialup connection with the ethernet connection to the wireless router.

So, your phone line will come into the modem on the back of your PC. The modems connection will be shared with the ethernet network adapter through ICS (Internet Connection Sharing). The ethernet network adapter will be connected by ethernet cable to the wireless router. You can then get wireless in your home.

I would suggest that for a dialup user, however, that this will be a very bad idea.. Very slow... But.. if only one person is using it at a time, well, it'll work.

Answer 3

No, sorry but this will not work. First of all dial up is not fast enough for one computer, let alone a network. Secondly there is no way to connect to a phone line with an ethernet router.

I mean technically it is possible but you would have to use a PC as a gateway and it would have to connect to the internet and all of the other PCs. So it would have to have multiple ethernet cards in it and you would have to setup internet connection sharing and possibly a domain. In other words, way to much for almost no gain.

Answer 4

The first dialup routers where router with RS-232 ports so a external modem could be used, as fallback in the event ISDN, ADSL,... went down. There are other solutions but for dialup I do not think you will be happy. The only real advantage of this would be that you have a LAN, for print and file sharing.
There are several routers that can be used with dialup. You will also need at least one external mode, about $50 more on top of the router.

http://www.multitech.com/PRODUCTS/Families/RouteFinder_102/

http://www.actiontec.com/support/modems/dualpcmdm_faqs.html

http://www.bestdata.com/index.php?file=c-allproddesc&iProductId=16156

http://www.netopia.com/support/hardware/r_2020.html

Answer 5

A broadband router only works with broadband.

Answer 6

Why bother? You might as well get a phone line splitter. You won't really be able to use two devices at the same time anyway.

Answer 7

i dont think so.
but you should upgrade to highspeed
i very much reccommend AT&T .. only $14-19 a month

Answer 8

As a practical matter, no this isn't feasible.

Answer 9

Dont think you can do this.

Answer 10

dial up? why bother...