OK, here are the components:

Computer with Dial-up modem and ISP account (A)
WiFi Router (B)
Local ethernet cabled network (C)

(A) is what you have now - you have a PC that connects to the internet 
via a modem.

(B) is a standalone device that one side connects to ethernet cabling 
and the other side transmits and receives data over the air to any 
number of computers who have WiFi adapters in them. This device will 
often also have an ethernet switch where additional network cables from 
other devices can be plugged into.

(C) is usually a network switch and RJ45 UTP type cables but when only 
two computers are in your local (cabled) network, this can be as simple 
as one cable that is wired as a "cross-over" cable. In your case since 
you have a WiFi router, you'd normally plan to use the network switch 
that is built into it with RJ45 cable to make up your local network.

Until you have a broadband connection, you need a path from the internet 
(A) into your WiFi Router (B) and hence the local network (C) where 
other computers may be connected, either via cable or via WiFi.

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. ( http://www.fx.dk/injoy/ - 30 
day trail versions available ). If that PC is infact running Windows XP 
professional (note not XP Home), it already has the equivalent of Injoy 
dialer built in. If that is the case, you can ask on the Windoze lists 
how to set that up.

Data flow would therefore be:

INTERNET
    |
  Telephone cable
    |
MODEM
    |
  Serial cable
    |
PC With router software and ethernet card
    |
  UTP ethernet cable
    |
WAN port of WiFi router
    |         |        |
  Other computers either via further UTP cables or via WiFi.

I hope this explains this for you.

Once you have a Broadband connection, you will install a UTP cable from 
the Broadband modem directly to the WAN port on the WiFi router and the 
PC that is presently connected to the telephone modem will have it's 
INJoy software stopped and be connected to one of the LAN UTP ports on 
the WiFi Router.

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, however it 
can and normally does talk to a broadband modem via an ethernet UTP cable.

Cheers/2

Ed.

inkleput{at}isp.com wrote:
> Ed Durrant  said:
> 
>> as long as one runs OS/2, Yes use the Injoy dialer OS/2 software from
>> Fx  Communications - it can do exactly this for you.
> 
>> Cheers/2
> 
>> Ed.
> 
> I'm sorry.  I don't follow you.  My question was, in essence, "can you
> cable a router to a dial-up?"  Your reply was, in essence,
"with Injoy." 
> Somewhere I lost the connection, no pun intended.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Jim L, via the operating system it took IBM 15 years to kill - it 
> squirms tho dead. -- 
> "Feel inadequate? Destroy stuff and kill people."
Confucious, Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.


 
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