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from: Ed Durrant
date: 2007-01-15 00:55:14
subject: Re: [OS2HW] Wifi vs dial-up?

inkleput{at}isp.com wrote:
> Ed Durrant  said:
> 
>> To do this you need router software to run on the computer that is 
>> connected to the telephone line via a modem. Presuming this computer is
>> using OS/2 or eComStation, the program I would recommend to do this is
>> "Injoy Dialer" from FX Communications.
> 
>> The key point in all of this is that the WiFi router itself cannot talk
>> to a Serial (telephone) modem which has a serial connection
> 
> OK, this last is exactly what I was looking for.  Routers cannot talk to
> regular modems - no way, no how.  Simple fact.
> 
> As I understand you, the only use for the wifi router in this case would
> be to free the laptop from dependence on a fixed wire in this huge
> network of 2.  Like I could lay in bed with my XP laptop upstairs and
> talk to my eCS desktop downstairs.  Or for that matter, I could do such
> work out on the deck or in the shop.  Or with the (a) router I could
> have more than 2 computers.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jim L, 

Yes that's correct.


 
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