Neoconnect Prime and Mikrotik

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portcullis

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Can I connect a Neoconnect prime device to a MikroTik router via USB and use NAT to give all the users on my LAN access to the bandwidth?
 
Yeah you could. Just don't ask me anymore for the RouterOS settings.
I'm lazy, I just use xp's built in ICS todo the job these days.
 
Thanks Armitage

Is there any truth in the rumour that the units don't work properly when more than one person is browsing the web / accessing the internet ?
 
portcullis... you can do that... u just need to use ICS on the box that you connect the prime device to (or use a router that dials up for you), and then u are free to organise your traffic using a mikrotik router. Been doing this quite successfully for a while now. I push bandwidth critical stuff (like skype web cam traffic, and email SMTP traffic) over ADSL (prime upload speeds are pathetic) and web browsing and downloads over neotel prime - using a mikrotik router.

good luck
 
Thanks Shogun,

Are you using a pc board running ROS, an RB433AUH or one of the other RB's?
 
using a server with windows (use it not just for ICS)... and then just a plain old routerBOARD 450 Network Manager. Got the routerboard here: http://www.dbg.co.za/catalog/index.php?cPath=105_109

Once it's all up and running it seems very stable - very few if any problems in the 6 months of so that it's been up.
 
So your Neotel device is plugged into the USB port of the Windows PC?

I want to plug it into the USB port of the Routerboard.
 
I have no idea if the Mikrotik will do that (perhaps someone else here knows). Apparently there is a router that does it... someone else here will probably remember the name. There was a big splash about it a few months back. Haven't tried it.
 
PPPoE, Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet, is a network protocol for encapsulating Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) frames inside Ethernet frames.
By using PPPoE, users can virtually "dial" from one machine to another over an Ethernet network, establish a point to point connection between them and then securely transport data packets over the connection.
Source
Click to expand...

Neoflex would use PPPoE to share it's connection over ethernet to it's local network.
Prime and Lite both use dialup sessions and would use ICS to share over their local network, when using a router, that then becomes an effective PPPoE using ICS.
 
Maybe I should rephrase my question:

Your communal garden variety ADSL router that connects to Telkom / WebAfrica / whoever uses a PPPoE / PPPoA connection (PPPoA is Point to Point Protocol over ATM). Some DSLAMs connect to the backbone via ATM, others such as the nice little Ericssons that we've installed a couple of times connect to the backbone via ethernet, but I digres.

You can set that ADSL router into "bridge mode" in which case you would have the PPPoE / PPPoA connection residing on your computer.

Many companies and individuals connecting to WISPS also have their CPE switched into bridge mode and then have a PPPoE connection that first needs to be fired up before they can connect to the Internet.

Last year Neotel Cape Town sent us a Neoflex to play with for a couple of days. I plugged it into an ethernet switch, set up some routes on a router and tested the unit.

I have client who has no MS computers on his network. He doesn't want any either. It's Mac, Mac and more Mac. The Macs currently connect to an ADSL router that he wants to replace with a Neoconnect Prime. He wants the uncapped option instead of paying Telkom per microbyte that his staff download.

I need to connect this thing to his network. I'm not up to speed with Macs and the way they work. I also don't want to get up to speed with Macs and the way they work. I want to duplicate the DHCP server in the Telkom ADSL router on a MikroTik router, unplug the Telkom router and plug the MikroTik in with the Neotel device connected to it.

I need to get the MikroTik to connect to Neotel through that Neoconnect Prime device. This is what I am trying to find out how to do.

Which is why I asked if the connection on shogun's MS box running ICS was a PPPoE connection or whether it's a dedicated piece of software.

I suppose another way of doing this would be to ask what's the process to connect a Linux box to a Neoconnect Prime?
 
Microtik

*sigh* the guy mentioning Micotik would be from CTN (or close to it hey?) to answer you question Port - buddy well you first need to umm :erm::confused: Hold on and see if I can dig up something for you...
*rummages through Rolodex*
*looks for Mr. Chuck Bartowski*
*settles for the guy in Product with the most toys*

Port - I'll try my best but we cant promise anything on this one buddy...
 
Neotel,

I spoke to Ian in your Cape Town office today and he said that he'd try to get somebody from the consumer division to send me a demo unit so I could figure this out...but needless to say the consumer division aren't falling over themselves to send a demo out to Somerset West.

Corporate division rocks.
Consumer division...well yes...
 
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