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Sharing Connection to a wireless Device

Asked by: moh10ly

Hi everyone.
I have two types of internet connection at home... One is Wimax using USB device and the other is a linksys wireless router.
I wanna know if it's possible to share the USB Wimax connection through a wireless device such as the linksys router or linksys broadband router.

The USB wimax Internet connection has 2.5 mbps speed, I have it plugged to my Computer... and right now i'm using ICS feature to share this connection with D-Link Switch. But I would like to share it using a wireless device ...
Is this possible?

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2009-05-30 at 03:38:39ID24450232
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Wireless

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Internet

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Wimax

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USB

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Wireless Technologies

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Network Management

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Windows Networking

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Answers

 

by: theras2000Posted on 2009-05-30 at 05:59:58ID: 24508821

Are you talking about making your wireless router directly receive the wimax signal?  Correct me if I'm wrong, but you need a wimax card to receive a wimax signal.  Wimax cards aren't built in to routers and I think are only just appearing in some laptops.  There obviously would be one inside your USB device.  Given that your router can't operate your USB dongle, then you'll have to keep it plugged into the computer.  So you must share the Wimax from the computer, using ICS, but then you could share out to the wireless router, which in turn shares to your other computers.  Or, rather than share to the wireless router, you could just set your WLAN to be in ad-hoc mode, so that other computers connect directly to your computer wirelessly.

Option 1 - Share ICS to the LAN port.  Connect LAN port to the wireless router's WAN/internet port.  Wireless router just works in default mode.  Clients connect to the wireless router.  This seems most likely to work and most likely what you want.

Option 2 - Share ICS to the WLAN port.  Connect the WLAN to the wireless router's wireless network.  Connect nothing to the router's WAN port.  Problem here is that the router usually forces all internet traffic to go through the WAN port, so this may not work.  This would certainly be true of the wireless bb router.

Option 3 - Share ICS to the WLAN port.  Setup your own wireless network in ad-hoc mode.  The other computers connect directly to you.

 

by: moh10lyPosted on 2009-05-30 at 06:33:22ID: 24508911

What I want to do is to share the internet for my Wimax USB Dongle through the Wireless router that I have note that I don't have Wireless card on my Desktop where I will have my Wimax USB plugged 24/7.

I think option 1 and 2 sound more proper to my case if I have got your point right.
I will start from where I'm now, I'll take the Lan cable which is connected to the switch now and connect it to one of the 4 lan ports on my Linksys wireless router...

Is this correct? and if so ..! what about the configurations ! Do I have to manually set an IP on the wireless router control panel page? .. What type of connection should I use ..!

The equipments that I have now available are :
1- Linksys wireless router.
2- D-link 8 ports switch.
3- 4 laptops and 2 desktops - one of the desktops will be acting as a server (DHCP server).

Thanks for your kind assistant.

 

by: theras2000Posted on 2009-05-30 at 06:54:50ID: 24508990

Ahh sorry I assumed you were a laptop with a wifi card (for no other reason than that's what I have) ;>

Connect the LAN cable from your computer's LAN port to the router's WAN port, not LAN.  This way, the router uses it's WAN port as the default gateway, so all internet-bound traffic goes out the WAN port and into your computer.
The router config should just be default + a few changes for the DHCP factor.  It's WAN IP should be dynamic so that it receives an IP from your ICS.  Or you could just set the WAN IP to 192.168.0.2 manually.
Seeing as you'll have a client DHCP server, you'll need to set it to a different address than 192.168.0.x, so e.g. use 192.168.1.x for the DHCP pool.  Make sure you leave a few addresses left out of the pool, and manually assign one of them to the router's WLAN/LAN IP in the router's control page.  Obviously disable DHCP on the router too.

If you get stuck on any specific config options in the router, tell me the options or even take a screenshot and tell me the model.

 

by: moh10lyPosted on 2009-05-30 at 08:43:16ID: 24509353

I DID IT ... DAMN it was soo easy.
I have made few amendments ... Connected a cable from the switch for my Linksys wireless router...
Changed Default router page from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.0.240
Changed the Encapsulation mode from RFC 2516 PPPOE to Bridge Mode Only.
Changed DHCP Server from Enable to DHCP Relay...

Now Laptop connected automatically to the internet ...  

Thanks so much for your help.

 

by: moh10lyPosted on 2009-05-30 at 08:45:19ID: 31586932

Your suggestion is similar to mine.. So i'm awarding you the points and thanks again for your help.

 

by: theras2000Posted on 2009-05-30 at 10:34:58ID: 24509702

Great!  I wasn't sure we'd get there quickly with me guiding you blind.

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