Possible to achieve internet sharing via router?

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Recently just moved to a new apartment on short 2 months rental while my own apartment being renovated.

Problem: the ISP doesn't seem to allow router connecting to the internet / the user login only allow 1 computer to be connected to the internet. The apartment have a network cable that came from a wall socket, which allows a direct PPPoE connection from the computer using user login. At the moment the setup, since it doesn't exactly work, I have the cable from the wallsocket, 2 computers all connected to the router.

Device available: 2 computers (1 laptop) running on win7, a router, 2 network cables

Question: is there any way where we can have me both computers connected to the internet without having to use a crossover cable? I don't have 2 network cards either to set up gateway.

one thing I need to mention is that I am currently in China and the internet for this entire community (few tower blocks) is from one ISP I can find numerous wireless connections within this building, so I'm not exactly sure if it's really the ISP or my router setup is acting crazy. :confused:

I haven't touched network stuff for years, so bear with me if my question is stupid.
 
You can use something called virtual wifi/windows 7 built in virtual wifi. All you need is a wireless network card
 
Yup, shoulda mentioned that. I needed to do it in halls at uni. Had the one wired port connected to my PC, then using the wireless network card enabled ICS and my phone/laptop connected to the wireless network I set up.

You'll need to have the wired connection on all the time though :(
 
Sin_Chase said:
So you are saying you can use a software pppoe dialer on a computer but not a pppoe dialer from a router? Sounds bizzare to me....!
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That is, unfortunately exactly the case I am experiencing here.

With PPPoE dialer from computer it connects straight away, but with router, the system log says something like:

248 41731:PPPOE: request timeout.
249 41743:PPPoE initiate manual connection.
250 41743:Standard authentication.
251 41744:Sending PADI, requesting connection.
252 41744:Invalid PADT packt received.
253 41744:PPPOE_TAG_SVC_NAME=null
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I thought it could be my router that's doing the acting up, but it was working just before I moved and I can't test it
 
Reset router to factory default and try again, it's got to be a settings thing...

Padi is to do with the initial hand shaking try tweaking the authentication


PADI stands for PPPoE Active Discovery Initiation.[7]
If a user wants to dial up to the Internet using DSL, then his computer first must find the DSL access concentrator (DSL-AC) at the user's Internet service provider's point of presence (POP). Communication over Ethernet is only possible via MAC addresses. As the computer does not know the MAC address of the DSL-AC, it sends out a PADI packet via an Ethernet broadcast (MAC: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff). This PADI packet contains the MAC address of the computer sending it.
 
edscdk said:
Reset router to factory default and try again, it's got to be a settings thing...

Padi is to do with the initial hand shaking try tweaking the authentication


PADI stands for PPPoE Active Discovery Initiation.[7]
If a user wants to dial up to the Internet using DSL, then his computer first must find the DSL access concentrator (DSL-AC) at the user's Internet service provider's point of presence (POP). Communication over Ethernet is only possible via MAC addresses. As the computer does not know the MAC address of the DSL-AC, it sends out a PADI packet via an Ethernet broadcast (MAC: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff). This PADI packet contains the MAC address of the computer sending it.
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Do you reckon it could be the router itself that's going crazy? I've done numerous check on login detail and reset back to factory default still no avail. Direct PPPoE dial works like a charm with exact same login, but for router it just kept on saying PPPoE request timeout when attempting to establish connection with PADI
 
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