Networking question

[Moker]

ok, so i'm using my droid as my internet connection.

i have a wireless router, as well as wireless laptops.

can i connect my computer to where the modem plugs into the wireless router, and use my computer as "the modem" to the wireless router, while using my phone as the internet connection.

what special changes need to be done?

i've tried leaving everything as dhcp plug and play, but that didn't work.

TIA

[Moker]

[capr]

I believe the easiest way to do this is to bridge a connection on your laptop.

1) Use your phone's wifi hotspot to connect your laptop.

2) plug an Ethernet cable into your laptop and connect the other end into your router's internet port. (not one of the regular ones)

3) go to your laptop and bridge the ethernet connection with the wifi connection.

There are lots of guides on step 3. what operating system are you using? on windows 7.

1) click the start menu and type in network and sharing center. click on the only search result

1b) alternatively, you can open the control panel and click on network and sharing center.

2) click on "Change adapter settings" on the left side of the new window that opens.

3) highlight both network connections (wifi and ethernet)

4) right click and click on "bridge connections"

[Moker]

well, i'm using pdanet on the phone and main pc (vista), and wanted to go from my main pc, to the internet jack on the modem (basically using my pc as the modem), that way i could use the laptops wirelessly, and also ps3.

reason i'm using pdanet is that i want to avoid having to give verzion any more, they're already raping me as it is.

[capr]

I think if verizon realizes that you are doing this, they will still charge you. For while, there was lots of stories of atnt doing this. But that's another story.

Go into your network connections and see if the USB internet comes up in there. Then pretty much go through the same steps that I mentioned.

Hopefully people with vista, and pdanet experience can help you more. If you get me a screen shot of what your network connections look like, I can help more.

[+BudMan MVC]

Vista has ICS, internet connection sharing.. Turn that on.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Using-ICS-Internet-Connection-Sharing

Use your wireless router as a Accesspoint - not as a NAT router, your PC will being doing the nat with ICS turned on.

Connect PC to router (LAN PORT) not it internet port, turn off dhcp on the router, set it IP to be on the ICS network that vista uses - I believe 192.168.1.0/24

As to the suggestion of bridging it -- NO! Not a very good idea at ALL!