My internet connection is through a Sprint Sierra Wireless Aircard 595U USB connection. Supposedly the card can be plugged into the router and each computer in the network will then be hooked to the internet. Unfortunately few routers (including mine) have a USB connection. So I have to plug the card into one of the three computers on my network, switching the card as needed. Someone published a solution to the problem and is a follows:
Few routers that I'm aware of accept the AirCard 595U's USB connection. And only one that I'm aware of, the CradlePoint CTR350,
explicitly supports the 595U. I just got a 595U and Sprint Mobile Broadband and had the same issue of setting up a wireless home network using it. I solve the problem using Windows Internet Connection Sharing (ICS). Here are the steps I took:
1. Set up the 595U as normal, plugged into a USB port on your PC.
2. In Network Connections (assuming you're using Windows), right click on the dial-up listing for "Sprint Mobile Broadband - Sierra Wireless," and choose "Properties."
3. Click on "Advanced" tab and check the first box under "Internet Connection Sharing" to "Allow other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection."
4. Choose "Local Area Connection" from the "Home Networking Connection" pull-down.
5. Choose "OK" and reboot computer.
Then:
1. Hook up a new wireless router (or reset your existing router to factory defaults) with a cable from your PC's ethernet port to the number 1 port (not the WAN port) on the router.
2. Reboot your PC
Then:
1. Open your browser and access the admin functions of the router (by going to the router's default IP address - http://192.168.1.1/ for a Linksys router, for example; this may differ with your router).
2. In the admin area, change the router's IP address to 192.168.0.254
3. Reboot
4. Get back into the router's admin functions (using your browser and the new 192.168.0.254 IP address) and find the setting for DHCP. Disable it.
5. Set up an SSID and WAP/WEP security, if you wish.
At this point, your laptop should see the wireless network. Try connecting. Took a lot research/tinkering for me to get to this point, but once I did, it worked great.
I followed his directions and was unable to get the internet on all 3 computers. However, my network didnt work either. All 3 of the computer connected to the new network connection but not to each other. They only recognized their own computer on the network. When I tried putting in the new IP router address in the two computers that have network adaptors, I was unable to get the Routers new IP on either computer. Ive since reset the network to the default network settings and the three computers are again sharing files.
I really have two questions.
1. Should the method in quotes really lead to an internet connection of all the computers on the network?
2. Why were my computers unable to recognize the other computers on the new network?
I should add that my router and one of my adapters is a Linkys.
When I set up the network, I created a new SSID, and disabled DHCP. I also set up a WPA (PSK) with an 8 character password instead of the eleven character password that was the default. (Could that cause a problem?) Also is there a difference between WAP and WPA?
It also occurred to me that the IP address 192.168.0.254 may not be one I can use and get all 3 computers connected correctly. The Linkys router had no problems with that address and took me back to the router settings so that I could put my original settings back in but the other two computers didnt connect with that internet page.
Even if I am unable to get internet on all 3 computers (at one time), I would like to set up my network with greater security, (right now its set back on the Linkys default), so would appreciate any help you could give me.
Thanks,
Valerie Detling
Few routers that I'm aware of accept the AirCard 595U's USB connection. And only one that I'm aware of, the CradlePoint CTR350,
explicitly supports the 595U. I just got a 595U and Sprint Mobile Broadband and had the same issue of setting up a wireless home network using it. I solve the problem using Windows Internet Connection Sharing (ICS). Here are the steps I took:
1. Set up the 595U as normal, plugged into a USB port on your PC.
2. In Network Connections (assuming you're using Windows), right click on the dial-up listing for "Sprint Mobile Broadband - Sierra Wireless," and choose "Properties."
3. Click on "Advanced" tab and check the first box under "Internet Connection Sharing" to "Allow other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection."
4. Choose "Local Area Connection" from the "Home Networking Connection" pull-down.
5. Choose "OK" and reboot computer.
Then:
1. Hook up a new wireless router (or reset your existing router to factory defaults) with a cable from your PC's ethernet port to the number 1 port (not the WAN port) on the router.
2. Reboot your PC
Then:
1. Open your browser and access the admin functions of the router (by going to the router's default IP address - http://192.168.1.1/ for a Linksys router, for example; this may differ with your router).
2. In the admin area, change the router's IP address to 192.168.0.254
3. Reboot
4. Get back into the router's admin functions (using your browser and the new 192.168.0.254 IP address) and find the setting for DHCP. Disable it.
5. Set up an SSID and WAP/WEP security, if you wish.
At this point, your laptop should see the wireless network. Try connecting. Took a lot research/tinkering for me to get to this point, but once I did, it worked great.
I followed his directions and was unable to get the internet on all 3 computers. However, my network didnt work either. All 3 of the computer connected to the new network connection but not to each other. They only recognized their own computer on the network. When I tried putting in the new IP router address in the two computers that have network adaptors, I was unable to get the Routers new IP on either computer. Ive since reset the network to the default network settings and the three computers are again sharing files.
I really have two questions.
1. Should the method in quotes really lead to an internet connection of all the computers on the network?
2. Why were my computers unable to recognize the other computers on the new network?
I should add that my router and one of my adapters is a Linkys.
When I set up the network, I created a new SSID, and disabled DHCP. I also set up a WPA (PSK) with an 8 character password instead of the eleven character password that was the default. (Could that cause a problem?) Also is there a difference between WAP and WPA?
It also occurred to me that the IP address 192.168.0.254 may not be one I can use and get all 3 computers connected correctly. The Linkys router had no problems with that address and took me back to the router settings so that I could put my original settings back in but the other two computers didnt connect with that internet page.
Even if I am unable to get internet on all 3 computers (at one time), I would like to set up my network with greater security, (right now its set back on the Linkys default), so would appreciate any help you could give me.
Thanks,
Valerie Detling