Re: Wireless Router to Laptop - Internet

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:11:30 -0800 (PST), MartyP
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Infrastructure:
>Windows 2000 server running ICS to a wireless router (DLINK) routing
>traffic to 2 Vista Laptops in the house. The Win2000 server connects
>to internet via dialup cell modem.
>
>Everthing seems to work fine except one thing. 80% of all websites
>can make it to my Vista laptop but I have about 20% that always
>timeout. When this happens, I can remote connect to my Win2000 and
>run IE on the server and view the troublesome websites just fine.
>Most of the problems seem to be with complex websites. Believe it or
>not, Microsoft.com is one of the sites that will not make it to the
>laptop but I can see it fine on the server.
>
>Any thoughts?

My first thought is to ask what is the purpose of the Win2k Server?
Why not connect the DLink router directly to your WAN connection, then
connect the Win2k system to one of the D-Link's LAN ports? Whatever
services it provides now would still be available that way, with the
exception that your path to the Internet would be simpler/cleaner.

Would that solve the page loading problems? I don't know, but it might
be a good troubleshooting step, even if you have a reason not to leave
it that way and go back to how you have it now.

>As a secondary question, is it worth it to run my server thru a
>wireless router? Can I do the same thing if I just plug a USB
>wireless thumb-drive (card, pen-drive, connector, whatever) into the
>USB port of the server?

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:57:24 -0800 (PST), MartyP
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> My first thought is to ask what is the purpose of the Win2k Server?
>> Why not connect the DLink router directly to your WAN connection, then
>> connect the Win2k system to one of the D-Link's LAN ports? Whatever
>> services it provides now would still be available that way, with the
>> exception that your path to the Internet would be simpler/cleaner.
>>
>> Would that solve the page loading problems? I don't know, but it might
>> be a good troubleshooting step, even if you have a reason not to leave
>> it that way and go back to how you have it now.
>>
>> >As a secondary question, is it worth it to run my server thru a
>> >wireless router? *Can I do the same thing if I just plug a USB
>> >wireless thumb-drive (card, pen-drive, connector, whatever) into the
>> >USB port of the server?
>
>Please check my post.

It wasn't in your initial post, that's why I asked.

>This is not a cable connection. It is dialup
>via cell modem and I cannot plug a cell modem directly into my router.
>It needs DUN first. So, it DUN to Server to Router to Laptop.
>Thanks for responding though.

What about giving yourself an early Christmas present of a wireless
router that accepts a cellular data card as its WAN connection?

Sorry, I'm probably not being helpful. Seriously, I would try to get
away from ICS as a middle man, if possible.