Can I connect the PAP2 to a wireless Laptop?

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Mar 06, 2005 Posts: 1

Does anyone know if it is possible to connect the PAP2 to the ethernet port of a laptop and have it work wirelessly Question

I have a Toshiba A65-S1062 laptop with a Linksys 108Mbps 802.11g card. Will the PAP2 work with it and how do I do it?

Thanks for any info.

I bought the PAP2 last night from Bestbuy, got home, ordered Vonage and was up and running in 15 minutes. (Actually, less, since I had to fax the LNP to Vonage.)

It worked fine. I was able to call the number I LNP using the virtual number. Sounded pretty good to me.

Posts: 3198 · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 3:03 pm Post subject:

that's pretty weird. offhand I would say no.

Posts: 6 · New Forum Member Joined: Feb 25, 2004 Posts: 6

Yes it works, I did it before. I was at a hotel with wireless network which I can connect with my laptop.

All you need it set your wireless on your laptop as a router to your ethernet port and use a cross over cable..

Posts: 129 · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 6:18 pm Post subject:

canomap wrote:

Yes it works, I did it before. I was at a hotel with wireless network which I can connect with my laptop.

All you need it set your wireless on your laptop as a router to your ethernet port and use a cross over cable..

I would imagine that it would work with a wireless Mac too. Just turn on internet connection sharing for the ethernet port and I can pretty much guarantee it would work. I will test this sometime, because this will be perfect when going on vacation.

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: May 21, 2005 Posts: 1

canomap wrote:

Yes it works, I did it before. I was at a hotel with wireless network which I can connect with my laptop.

All you need it set your wireless on your laptop as a router to your ethernet port and use a cross over cable..

I was curious to the specifics of how you managed to get that done. I firmly grasp the concept, however my attempts at the same function have failed.

I could never get the ethernet connection properly bridged to the wireless connection, it would never hand out an IP, if I enabled ICS with the connections bridged, it would hose my wireless connection etc. etc.

I don't need a power point slide or anything, but specifics on the configuration you used would be truly appreciated.

Confused

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Mar 11, 2005 Posts: 2

Basically, all you need to do is to turn on Internet Connection Sharing on your laptop, then use a crossover cable between your PAP and the laptop [make sure it is a crossover and not the regular straigh-through cable or you may fry both the laptop and the PAP].

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Sep 26, 2005 Posts: 1

Spidey is right, but I will add one thing here... You should "network bridge" your wireless network connection with the local-area-connection (ethernet) then plug your PAP2 into the ethernet port with crossover cable.

The bridge (windows XP) is what worked for me.

Posts: 1715 · Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 2:50 pm Post subject:

Bridge mode works quite well for me (using an RTP300 connected to the laptop). Out of habit, I always knock my bandwidth saver down to 30kbps before venturing on the road just in case I encounter less-than-ideal conditions.

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Jan 20, 2006 Posts: 1

I am trying to connect Vonage service at my house through my computer's wireless access. I am using a Cisco Aironet wireless card to connect to a Cisco wireless point on our campus. I am using Windows XP and am trying to figure out how to get the Vonage service to work through my wireless connection. I do have a built-in LAN connection on my motherboard. I have tried to bridge the connections but when I do it breaks my wireless access. More detailed help on how to get this to work would be appreciated.