Using laptop as a gateway?

[Ice2Cool]

Hey guys,

I was wondering if someone could help me out here. I was to use my laptop as a gateway between my neoflex modem and my wireless-n router so that I can 100% monitor my bandwidth usage.

My plan is to connect the neoflex modem to the laptop via USB and use the laptop to dial up. I will then connect my belkin wireless-n router to the laptop via ethernet which will act as the wireless router to the internet.

Diagramattically:

Neoflex-Modem <-----> Laptop <----->Wireless Router <======> Wireless Devices (2 Laptops, cell phone, PS3)

My question is does anyone know of any decent software to track the connections usage (logging, throughput etc)? The laptop is running Vista and it will always be there. Any help will be much appreciated!

 

[Ice2Cool]

No one?? Pls pls pls pls. How are you guys with neotel prime doing it?

 

[newklear]

You could set your laptop up for ICS i.e IP 192.168.0.1 ?

Not too sure what your default wireless-n router IP is, but you would have to change your wireless-n router IP to 192.168.0.100 (Make a note what Default IP was to revert back to just in case) and connect any wireless devices to the router with the Default Gateway as 192.168.0.1

Set the device IP's to 192.168.0.(2/3/4/etc)
Set your Primary and Secondary DNS to 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 for any device that connects to your wireless-n router as well as on the Gateway laptop.

Well thats how I set mine up on NeoConnect, not sure if it would for you but hope that helps.
Usb NeoConnect Modem > PC (Gateway - 192.168.0.1) < Billion Router -192.168.0.100 < 1 X PC and 1 X Wireless Laptop using ICS.

I use Bandwidth Monitor Pro setup on my Gateway PC (Have setup My Adapters to log within the Bandwidth Monitor Pro setup) and am able to log traffic by Internal IP.