I have decided to change apartment in the near future, so I don't want to waste money on a high speed subscription until I have done so.

At the moment I am using a Vodafone gprs/edge usb dongle with a 12Call sim card to connect to the internet.

I have a D-Link wireless ADSL2+ router that I used with my Buddy Broadband connection in Bangkok a couple of years ago. The router have one ADSL port and 4 LAN ports.

Is it possible to set up the router on my desktop so I can use wifi in my apartment?

Cheers

Nana

You have to establish internet service for the phone landline that will plug into the D-link router. Once you have that operational just set up the wireless part (make sure you use encryption) and that end is done. If your computer does not have wireless already get a wireless USB dongle (one made by D-link probably good idea to help connectivity). Set up the computer wireless connection to match the wireless parameters on the router, and should work.

The apartment doesn't have a phone line. And I don't want to pay for one since I will be moving soon. Thats why I asked if it was possible with the aircard connection I currently use.

Cheers

Nana

The apartment doesn't have a phone line. And I don't want to pay for one since I will be moving soon. Thats why I asked if it was possible with the aircard connection I currently use.

Cheers

Nana

There are wireless access routers and one of them is:VigSys HSDPA Modem WiFi Router HWGR-2;it has SIMCard slot.It will work on Edge.About 200bucks.Look www.vigsys.net

They have other interesting products.

Hi

I made a solution like that many years ago before I got a broadband connection in my home. I didn't use aircard but a mobile phone and bluetooth... However the principle is the same.

The steps are something like this:

1.Desktop computer connected to the wireless router with cable. Air card connected to the Desktop computer.

2.Set up the wifi the "normal" way with wpa2 encryption. Check if you can see the router from the Laptop trough the Wifi

3.Change the ip of the router itself to something like 192.168.0.100

4.Disable the DHCP server of the router.

5.Use Internet Connection Sharing on the desktop computer to share the connection you have trough your aircard on your desktop computer.

This will set the network card of the Desktop to 192.168.0.1 and start the DHCP server on the desktop.

6.See if you can see the router from the Desktop http://192.168.0.10

7.See if you can get a connection from your laptop after rebooting it. If you don't get an IP from the DHCP on the Desktop, that mean that the router does not forward the DHCP request to the Desktop, then you need to enable DHCP in the router... it may conflict with the DHCP of the Desktop... we solve that later in that case.

So now when you start your Laptop the following will happen. You will see the Wifi connection and the WPA2 authentication will get you on the network. Your Laptop will send and DHCP request and the router will forward this to the Desktop. The DHCP of the Desktop will give you and IP, mask, IP of DNS server and default gateway. With that you are on...

Martin

Edited February 7, 201016 yr by siamect