Internet Connection Sharing - EVDO over WiFi/Bluetooth

loberb · EVDO Newbie Joined: 13 Aug 2005 Posts: 6

I recently purchased a Novatel v620 card that is active and working with Verizon. I also purchased a Syba PCI to PCMCIA adaptor with the hopes of being able to share the v620 through my wireless network or through Bluetooth (less preferable). I have a Linksys Wireless G Desktop Adaptor along with a Class 1 (higher range than Class 2) Bluetooth transceiver.

I tried bridging the connections from my EVDO and the wireless card. However, Windows XP Pro, which I am using, does not allow me to bridge a broadband connection (Wireless G) with what it recognizes as dial-up (EVDO, in this case). If anyone knows how I can go about setting up Windows to allow me to share the connection wirelessly over either Bluetooth or WLAN (my prefered method), please let me know.

I appreciate it!

-loberb
loberb@gmail.com
_________________
Novatel v620
Syba PCI to PCMCIA Adaptor
Linksys Wireless G Desktop Adaptor

Michael · Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 8:50 am Post subject:

This URL at EVDOinfo.com shows you how to do it:

Windows Sharing EVDO
_________________
3Gstore.com

loberb · EVDO Newbie Joined: 13 Aug 2005 Posts: 6

I just took a look at the site that you linked to. Unfortunately, in my version of Windows, XP Pro SP2, there is no box which allows me to select "home networking connection," as appears on the provided page. Everything else is identical, except for that. If anyone knows how to share the connection in this particular OS, please let me know. Thanks!
_________________
Novatel v620
Syba PCI to PCMCIA Adaptor
Linksys Wireless G Desktop Adaptor

loberb · EVDO Newbie Joined: 13 Aug 2005 Posts: 6

I reinstalled the drivers for all wireless devices and networking devices. I now see the screen which Michael mentioned in the setup page. However, I am unable to detect any wireless network on other systems. Just as the other fellow mentioned on the bottom of that page, I too followed all instructions but fail to see the signal on any other system. I am unsure as to how to set an SSID (and how to establish some type of WEP/WPA/MAC limiting security). If anyone can pitch in an idea, I would appreciate it. Thanks again.
_________________
Novatel v620
Syba PCI to PCMCIA Adaptor
Linksys Wireless G Desktop Adaptor

brendanhoar · EVDO Heavy User Joined: 09 Jun 2005 Posts: 140

loberb · EVDO Newbie Joined: 13 Aug 2005 Posts: 6

I am on a little roadtrip right now but will give your suggestion a shot when I get back. That makes sense... setting to ad-hoc. I didn't think to do that. Thanks for the info.
_________________
Novatel v620
Syba PCI to PCMCIA Adaptor
Linksys Wireless G Desktop Adaptor

Michael · Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 7:55 am Post subject:

Thanks to Budd Walls for providing these detailed steps for sharing his EVDO Card via WiFi to other 2 other laptops. Please note these directions are for the AirCard 580, but CAN be used for any EVDO Card.

brendanhoar · EVDO Heavy User Joined: 09 Jun 2005 Posts: 140

One more thing: my setup was working for 4 days last week, then it stopped working correctly. As far as I know, I hadn't changed anything, but who knows what microsoft's auto-updates might have done to the XPSP2 machine. Smile

I ended up redoing everything (as above) and it still wouldn't work.

I then ran the network configuration wizard and chose the best options I thought seemed to match (I'll have to document this later). The only difference in the setup was now the internal WiFi card connection was listed as Bridged (the EVDO connection was and had always been listed as Shared).

Not sure why the EVDO connection's ICS screen didn't automatically set on the WiFi connection when I chose the WiFi connection as the one to share EVDO over.

-brendan

educationk12 · EVDO User Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 43

Well, I followed this exactly with a toshiba u105 and a brand new oqo 01+. I couldn't get it to work. This is about the 5th time I have tried various people's instructions on how to share your evdo signal from one laptop to another. 10-12 hours of wasted time. Frustrating to say the least. I guess I need to wait for the KR1 to be released.

I got the signal to show up to the oqo and it connected for about 2 minutes, but I couldn't pull up a web page and about 2 hours of trying to make it work, I realized it just wasn't. I have a KPC650 card and I formerly tried it on a PC5220 card and different computers with someone elses instructions. I think I found those on evdoinfo some time back. Oh well, if anybody knows of another set of instructions, then I would try it on two brand new computers or two used ones...either way, would love to know why this is so difficult.

Bob H. · Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 7:48 pm Post subject:

Reverend · EVDO Newbie Joined: 17 Aug 2005 Posts: 5

For those still having trouble using ICS after reading the guide here,
http://www.evdoinfo.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=59&Itemid=63
like I did, some additional information...

When you successfully set up ICS on your EVDO machine, your network connection now acts as a DHCP server so you must disable the DHCP server that is a part of your router.
After and disabling the router's DHCP server and rebooting all the non EVDO machines on your network, you should at least see the EVDO connection on the non-EVDO machines.

At this point on the EVDO machine, open a DOS box and type the following command:
nslookup
This should return an ip address to you. ex. 66.174.6.7
On your non EVDO machines, right click on your network connection and select properties. Double click on 'Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)'. Select 'Use the following DNS server address' Fill in the obtained ip address from the above step, in the 'Preferred DNS server' slot. Click 'OK', click 'OK'.
This is what I had to do to get mine up and surfing the web.
Hope this helps.
Administrators feel free to edit to make it easier to understand.

photo247 · EVDO Newbie Joined: 15 Dec 2005 Posts: 4

I took an additional step that I didn't see mentioned above, to get three laptops to share EVDO (Verizon BroadbandAccess, Audiovox 5740 card) via ad hoc wifi and no router (posting over this connection now Very Happy

):

In the Network Properties window, Advanced tab, where you enable Internet Connection Sharing via the checkbox that says "Allow other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection," at the bottom of this window there is a button labeled Settings... Click that. The Advanced Settings dialog appears. In this dialog I enable both DHCP options. Before that the client PCs could not reliably obtain IP addresses and I had to set them manually. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. Since I started enabling DHCP via this dialog on the host computer I've had no problems.

Michael · Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:41 am Post subject:

Thanks for posting that info, that may be the missing piece on why it is not working for some.
_________________
3Gstore.com

nineowls · EVDO Newbie Joined: 05 Nov 2005 Posts: 1

starting simple: trying to share my working EVDO connection, windows XP, over ethernet through dlink 514 to other laptops and computers on my network

if I can do this I can get my suse machine working or a knoppix machine working and maybe get past these last two windows computers in my house

10 HOURS of reading and trying suggestions--even google has failed me; cannot hit the right combination to get this working yet

Walter · EVDO Junkie Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 307

I would suggest using your router as a simple Ethernet switch first until you can successfully share the Windows XP computer with another computer on your network. You'll need to turn off the router DHCP server to do this. Then connect all the computers on the LAN side of the router (nothing on the WAN side). Then just run Network Connection Wizard on the computer with the EVDO modem. This should work.

I assume you ultimately want to put the EVDO modem computer on the WAN side of the router and the other computers on the LAN side? If so, then you can try to configure things to work with the EVDO computer on the WAN side of the router once you have basic connection sharing working. I've never tried this before (I use a switch not a router because my EVDO computer is also the main server for my LAN), but I don't see why it wouldn't work. First glance is that I'd expect the EVDO computer using ICS to have an IP of 192.168.0.1 while the router would have 192.168.1.1. I would look into this area.

Hope that's of some help.
_________________
Reach, Connect, Celebrate, Grow, Serve.