ADSL through WIFI

[johndopeyman]

My neighbor has kindly given me permission to make use of his ADSL line for free. :) All i need to do is purchase my own account (I was thinking Imaginet R220 p/month) and a wifi card for my PC. i would like to know what the best card (pci or usb) would be to buy. 54 or 108, pci or usb. etc. I would obviously like to get a cheap one but i dont know if it will suffice.

These are the prices i have so far.
Gigabyte® 54Mbps PCI Wireless LAN Card - 802.11b/g - Auto Power Management - External Antenna - R360
Gigabyte® 54Mbps/108Mbps PCI Wireless LAN Card - 802.11b/g - Auto Power Management - AES - Advance Encryption System - R480

[arf9999]

not sure that it will work like that.....In order to have another account running, you are going to need another modem/router connected to his line....

[tibby.dude]

not sure that it will work like that.....In order to have another account running, you are going to need another modem/router connected to his line....

Just put it in bridge mode and then you can have multiple logins from a PPPoE client on XP but the throughput is going to be cut in half if shared.

[Ratwiz]

@ tibby.dude

I want to share a connection using a wireless internet router with my neighbours. So I was wondering:

1. Is it possible that I could lets say split a 20gig Axxess account (if they'll let me ;) ) into four accounts and each person could login using a unique username/password and when their cap runs out they can't use the connection anymore.

2. Is the thoroughput cut in half if another account is logged in (ie: if only one person is downloading but two are logged in, will that person only download and upload at half the speed of the connection?) at the same time as you or only if you are downloading at the same time?

Thanks.

[tibby.dude]

Is it possible that I could lets say split a 20gig Axxess account (if they'll let me ;) ) into four accounts and each person could login using a unique username/password and when their cap runs out they can't use the connection anymore.

The large accounts are limited to 1 PPPoE login session only to prevent people from "timesharing" their account :).

A solution would be to have the router initiate the PPPoE session but use a proxy server to limit each account to it's montly allowance but the problem is that proxies are fine for browsing but play havoc with P2P and other protocols.


Is the thoroughput cut in half if another account is logged in (ie: if only one person is downloading but two are logged in, will that person only download and upload at half the speed of the connection?) at the same time as you or only if you are downloading at the same time?

I am really not too sure but I think that some sort of load balancing done so that one connection does not swamp the other ... so in a worst case scenario the pipe is cut in half.

If one is just idling or using low throughput let's say doing IRC then the other one will get more of the pipe until it maxes out.

Any network fundi's want to comment ???.

[Ratwiz]

Shot tibby. I just posted a thread about my prob in the ADSL help section.