ADSL: Concurrent sessions and routers

[genetica]

Good day

When getting an ADSL line with a router,
and your ISP only supports 1 concurrent session.

Will you be able to still have 4 PC's running internet
from the router or will you have to connect one PC
on the router(use the PC as a server) and share its
internet connection on the network?

Regards

 

[who.is.michael]

simply put: ISP's 1 concurrent session used by modem/router and all 4 PC are connected to the modem/router...

 

[dekana]

Yes

 

[milomak]

to add to what michael said, as long as you are not trying to connect via pppoe (to the same account) then you have no issue.

 

[Pada]

Concurrent connections simply implies that you may only establish that many PPPoE connections to the same ADSL account.

The router/modem uses NAT (Network Address Translation) in such a way that it only establishes ONE PPPoE connection to the ADSL account, whilst allowing multiple clients on its LAN segment to have Internet access.

When the router is in bridge mode (then it won't employ NAT), each person has to establish their own PPPoE connection, and in this case 1 concurrent connection won't cut it for multiple users.

 

[MbabaSim]

I think people that answer the original question can help me with mine. I have 1 router that has 4 channels on it. I connect to channel 1 with an ethernet cable, is it possible to connect to the other channels wirelessly?

 

[biometrics]

Yes again. The router is only making one PPPoE connection to the ISP.