56k dial up and wireless connection

I am trying to decide what to buy and would appreciate any help

I want to share my modem dial-up connection (no, i don't want DSL or
cable ...) with a few laptops. i was thinking of buying an external
modem and a wireless router. i heard that some wireless routers accept
a connection from a 56k dial-up modem?

also, is there a modem that comes out with an RJ45 connection so that
one can just buy a regular router instead of the special ones that
accept the serial connection from the modem?

Thanks!

On 21 Apr 2005 10:21:00 -0700, Tobi <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>I want to share my modem dial-up connection (no, i don't want DSL or
>cable ...) with a few laptops. i was thinking of buying an external
>modem and a wireless router. i heard that some wireless routers accept
>a connection from a 56k dial-up modem?

If you can dedicate a system for the dialup connection, even an older
desktop unit, Windows (98 and newer) and Linux let you share a dialup
connection over a LAN. Probably MacOS as well, but you didn't specify
your operating system. Then if you must have wireless, you can add a
wireless access point. (However, you cannot beat the security,
stability, and performance of a traditional wired network. I would
use wireless only as a last resort.)

--
Roger Blake
(Subtract 10 for email.)

Well, I don't have a desktop and therefore don't want to wire a pc
directly and then just share. I was more thinking of an independent
modem and then a router.