Dial-up server question

I would like to setup some sort of software that would allow me to dialup to my home computer and connect to the internet. Basically, i want to do the same thing most dial up isp's do, just on a really small scale. I have a modem with autoanswer on it.

I want to setup something so that i dont have to pay for an external isp for traveling and the such. I have a good cable connection at my house that is more than adiquit. I also run linux on some of my servers. So if the only way to do this is through linux, i can do that. I would however perfer something windows based.

I would appriciate any help you can provide. Thanks again!!


-Mr.K

Hi MRK

I am trying to do the same thing as you, my friend wants to connect to my computer, so he can access the internet through my cable modem. We both use windows xp, and so far have connected through 2 dail up modems, but thats it, just a connection, what we are stuck on is, how to share my files, cable modem etc.

Getting the 2 modems to connect seems to be the easy part. How have you faired, have you found any software to let you have access to your home computer ?

Everything is there on xp to let you accept an incoming connection, but that seems to be it. If you have had any success please post and le me know, as I am very frustrated, like wise I will post if I have any more information.

Chips

I wish you luck with your project, chips, but your friend might as well just dial up the internet himself, since he won't get faster response going through your cable modem. His modem will still be the bottleneck. To share files over the internet, you could set up your computer to be a server.

Karsh is right in that the cost of an extra phone line into chips place is probably more than the $6 you can get an ISP for. However, for the short term, I think there could be good reason to do this, particuliarly if chips' friend does not currently have an ISP and the call to Mr. chips is local.

For MRK, the best solution may be to see if his cable company offers access numbers he can use for free while travelling. Many do. Or consider a $6/mo ISP like access4less.net. The $6 might be less than the long distance charges if they have access numbers in the areas to which you travel. They even have V92.

In order to share your internet connection with your modem network, you will have to enable Internet Connection Sharing on the broadband machine for the broadband connection.

On both machines, I would disable the firewall for the modem connection. Enable Microsoft Networking, File and Printer Sharing, and TCP/IP for the modem connection. Then experiment.

To see if you can share files type \\MachineIP or \\MachineName in your browser. Notice the direction of the slashes.

Check your IP's by typing cmd /k ipconfig /all from the Run line.

Check your friend's IP by running cmd /k netstat -a 15 from the run line.

For ICS to work all clients must have IP's in the range 192.168.0.xx, where xx is anything between 2 and 254, and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and a default gateway of 192.168.0.1.

None of this should require additional software.

If you get it to work, please come back and tell us how you did it.

i got a server on cable and i want remote users to dial a phone number on their computer connect to my computer and use my internet access for free(not counting the cost for the phone lines), basically i want to set up my computer like a dial-up isp, if you have any suggestions please reply or email me

That is pretty much what this thread is addressing. I came accross some software which would make the process much simpler. It costs a hundred bucks, but does a lot of other cool things, like allow for teaming of multiple internet connections and it incorporates a caching proxy server. It has a remote access server, which is what you are looking for, that seems to be limited only by the number of available phone lines.

http://www.vicomsoft.com/vig/spec/vig.spec.win.html#PPP

Just know that your max speed when connected to your cable machine will be 33K no matter what modem you put on.

Good point. Because of the phone line?

No, because going faster than that requires more technology at the "answering" end. I must be honest and say I do not know exactly why it is that normal modems talking to each other wont go faster than that, but I do know it is correct. Only ISP's can really offer 56K etc (so to speak).
I know this because I used to work in the firewall industry and our product had RAS as a facility but could not go any faster than 33K. When I asked, the answer was "because the answering phone cant do it under normal circumstances and the isp's have expensive modems that allow it"... or something to that effect.
I wish I hadve asked "why" now.