Re: Internet Connection Sharing and Hurricane Katrina
- From: "Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 23:02:34 -0400
Turning off the router functions should allow the router to operate as a
switch. I would assume that you have both asked your neighbor if he/she
minds sharing and that your neighbor has checked with his/her provider to
ensure that he/she can share with you. If the answer to either of these
questions is NO then one or the other of you may wind up in trouble.
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"geo" <geoman39@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I live in Slidell, LA. We were devasted by Hurrican Katrina. I had
> cable internet before the storm. They say I might get it back around
> Thanksgiving. The Cable CO's cable is laying all over the road for
> about a mile. It is like this everywhere. When the power company
> rebuilt the power lines and poles, they damaged and broke the cable all
> over the place. The DSL provider is swamped with requests too. DSL does
> work in my neigborhood and was on just days after the storm passed (a
> good reason to get DSL). I have a external USB wireless adapter and
> can pick up one of my neighbors wireless network if I hang the antenna
> out an upstairs window, or in the attic. I am trying to share that
> connection with the rest of my family on our wired/wireless network,
> but am having trouble with the Internet Connection Sharing(ICS). I am
> running Win2000 and the others are running various flavors of XP
> (Home/Pro/Tablet)
>
> This is my setup today. I have the inoperative cable modem connected
> to a linksys wireless router with 4 switch ports. I have 5 computers
> hooked up and a wireless HP printer. When I try to share the wireless
> internet connection from one of my PCs with my home network, it says
> that there is already an IP address of 192.168.0.1, which I believe is
> my neighbors router. Although it could be my linksys. It gives me an
> error, then the wireless adapter loses it's IP address and mask.
> Apparently the ICS only works on that IP address.
>
> Here is what I was thinking. Remove my current Linksys router from my
> network and get a plain switch to connect my home network. Start my
> wireless PC, enable the ICS, and then start the other PCs. Then, maybe
> I can share the connection. But then, who is the DHCP server? My
> Win2000 machine?
>
> If I can't do that, I have to continue using dial-up until
> thanksgiving. A fate worse than death.
>
> Am I thinking in the right direction, and is there something I am
> missing? Ideally, I would like to continue to use my wireless/wired
> router for our wireless notebooks and printer.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Tom
> Slidell, LA
>
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