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[henno]

I really hope you guys can help.

I'm new the the whole ADSL thing. A friend of mine has an existing ADSL connection. (384K with the Marconi wireless modem).

1st Question: Can we share the connection? Can the Wireless modem be put in bridge mode, so that each one of us can have its own ISP, and account to do a PPPoE connection.

Secondly. If the above is possible, do we both have to be with the same ISP? He's currently with TelkomInternet, but I recon there are better/cheaper ISPs out there.

Feedback appreciated.

 

[m0zy]

1st Question: Can we share the connection? Can the Wireless modem be put in bridge mode, so that each one of us can have its own ISP, and account to do a PPPoE connection.

Yes

Secondly. If the above is possible, do we both have to be with the same ISP? He's currently with TelkomInternet,

You can both have diferent ISP's. No problems there.

but I recon there are better/cheaper ISPs out there.

http://www.hellkom.co.za

 

[hj2k_x]

Agree with m0zy. Check out www.webafrica.co.za or www.openweb.co.za for some of the best prices or click on one of their ads just above this post

 

[henno]

Excellent!!! Doesnt often happen, that you get the answer you hoped for.

So, on the first question, we'd have to get into the Marconi web interface, that I presume would be 192.168.0.1? and set the modem up to be in bridge mode?

Secondly, if I were to get an account from Cybersmart (getting a username and password) and he used his username and password, where does the authentication happen?

Surely the authentication for my account would have to happen at Cybersmart, and his at TelkomInternet, but how would the router/modem know where to send the request to??

Thanks

 

[xistenz]

So, on the first question, we'd have to get into the Marconi web interface, that I presume would be 192.168.0.1? and set the modem up to be in bridge mode?

Correct

Secondly, if I were to get an account from Cybersmart (getting a username and password) and he used his username and password, where does the authentication happen?

On the SAIX RADIUS server. If necessary, it will forward your authentication request to the Cybersmart RADIUS server (if they have one)

 

[henno]

excellent! Will try that.

Interesting comment on the authentication. So i presume this means that all ISPs need to expose their account info to the SAIX RADIUS server.

 

[xistenz]

Interesting comment on the authentication. So i presume this means that all ISPs need to expose their account info to the SAIX RADIUS server.

Not really, if the SAIX RADIUS server sees your username as '[email protected]', it will just forward the query to the cybersmart RADIUS server which will do the authentication. The SAIX server only sees your username and password.

I stand to be corrected on the above info as I think that is how it works.