[access-uk] Re: setting up a network with ADSL modem

  • From: "ROBIN CLAYDEN" <robin.clayden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 22:13:34 -0000

Hi Yusuf,

I can't give you much technical help re setting this up, but can answer one or two of your questions.

I have BT ADSL here, and I ditched the BT Alcatel modem for my own wireless lan utility, a router that can take multiple pc's but the only thing you need to remember, is that BT will not support this setup, they'll want to sell you a home Highway or small business package for mega bucks. It's your choice, but I have 2 pc's and a laptop setup on here, and pay the basic £26.99 a month. I hope I'm right here, in saying, BT can supply me with an ADSL line for that price, but what I do with it inside my property is up to me. If you get your local pc shop to do your wireless setup, it's the local shop you need if anything goes wrong, don't call BT.

The Wlan 802.11d router, I'm told, has a very sophisticated firewall built in, and I therefore have disabled the one on this XP Pro machine. I have AVG7 and Spybot installed on all 3 units, and fingers crossed, seem to have escaped any evil stuff that goes around these days.

With a wireless network, well at least the way I have mine setup, any machine with a USB transmitter, can individually access the internet, regardless of what's switched on or not. The only little snag I have recently encountered however, is when I converted this machine to XP Pro, it can see the other pc and laptop, can access their C drives, but those two, which have Win '98SE operating systems, cannot access the hard drive of this XP one. I'm told that XP has a problem with other operating systems on the same network, there is a fix, but it's not a five minute job.

I put this in about a year ago, and it ran to around £150 including install and setup.

I cannot remember the range for the transmitters to the router, but my wife sat out in the garden earlier this summer with the laptop, hmm, 25 yards away from the router? I'm sure it can cope with a bit more than that, so it doesn't matter which room or whatever... and yeah, we did get some sunshine here one day!

Hope this is of some help.

Robin.
----- Original Message ----- From: "yusuf" <yusufaosman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "access-uk" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 9:32 PM
Subject: [access-uk] setting up a network with ADSL modem



Hi all, I know this has been covered before on this list probably several times in-fact but you know how it is, when your not directly interested in something you don't tend to read messages. Anyway.

I have a desktop with a direct ADSL connection on it and a laptop. I'd like to network the two together so that I can get files easily from one to the other, allow my laptop to use the ADSL connection and do this all wirelessly and securely!!. My laptop and desktop are in separate rooms although the rooms are next door to each other.

My current ADSL modem was one provided by BT and I was told that this modem was not suitable for multiple computers, so presumably I need to get a different modem?

Do I need to get a router as well?

Is it possible for my laptop to access the internet using the router and modem when the desktop is turned off?

My current internet connection is 1 MBPS.

In the future I might want to add a third computer to my little network.

Oh and my laptop is a Compaq presario 1500T.

Any help and advice much appreciated.
Cheers

Yusuf

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