Wireless setup issue

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Hi,

I'm currently at my father's house for the weekend, and he's allowing me to use his ADSL line, but I have to use my account as he doesn't want me to cap him.

Problem is, we both have urgent work to do, and he doesn't want me messing on his router as he is afraid I'm going to mess up his connection.

His Afrihost details are defaulted on the router, so whenever I make the wireless connection to the router in order to dial into my account, it first connects using his default account.

I'm currently getting access from both accounts, whereas I want to completely ignore his account and route all my traffice through my session.

Am I being confusing or is someone understanding this?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.
 
You're not going to get that working without changing setting both on the router and on his PC.


Edit: Looking at the replies from guys who know more than I do, I should have kept my mouth shut. :)
 
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If you dial a connection from your PC, while the Afrihost account is still open on the router, all the traffic should go through the account that you dialed from your PC, unless you turned off the "Use default gateway on remote connection" under the PPPoE connection's TCP/IP v4 settings on your PC.

If you want to be guaranteed that you're not using your dad's account, then you should change the router into bridge mode so that he can dial his Afrihost account from his PC so that there is no way that you can accidentally use his account.
 
Pada said:
If you dial a connection from your PC, while the Afrihost account is still open on the router, all the traffic should go through the account that you dialed from your PC, unless you turned off the "Use default gateway on remote connection" under the PPPoE connection's TCP/IP v4 settings on your PC.

If you want to be guaranteed that you're not using your dad's account, then you should change the router into bridge mode so that he can dial his Afrihost account from his PC so that there is no way that you can accidentally use his account.
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yes, just go into the router change one setting from PPPoE (where the details are) to Bridge.
Now dial from each pc, when you leave just change it back to PPPoE and the settings should come back, if not just take a screenshot of the page so you can put it exaclty how it was...
 
What I suggest your try is,
Assign a static ip to your machine, just ip and subnet mast, have dns and gateway not set so that you pc wont be able to use the router.
Then create a pppoe connection on your machine, if the router supports half bridge mode you should be able to dial out and then only be on your connection.

Ideal situation because you won't have to change the settings on the router.
You say you are getting connections from both account so it seems it is supporting half bridge mode. The above setting will then ensure you don't use his account/gateway.
Of course if this doesnt work, maybe post what kind of router it is on here so we can see what kind of bridge modes it has, but then you gonna have to get into the config of it.
 
Geez, you and your dad are such independent heads.

Just guy a gig or two for his account and his that....do you really need all of this
 
If you dial, it should use the account you dialed. Check this by not dialling first and going to a site to check your IP (whatsmyip.org) and then after you dial. It should be different the 2nd time.
 
@bsntombela: I suggested that, but he's 70, and very set in his ways. No is no.

Also, my account is uncapped.

I tried suggesting the PPPOE dialup - but that involves changing things.

I've tried setting up a secondary SSID and moving that the a new LAN group, but that didn't seem to work, on PPPOE or Bridge. Didn't see a setting for half-bridge.

It's one those little Mega 105-WR Routers - hence me not being very hopefull for a resolution.
 
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if its a mega 105, then do exactly what i said and it will work, no router setup required!
 
bboy: very nice suggestion!

bboy's suggestion of leaving out the Default gateway & DNS servers on your LAN/WiFi connection would guarantee that your PC will never use your dad's Afrihost account which is dialed by the router.
 
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