Need work around for wireless network

[paul.rowling]

Hi,

Here is my situation:

Got a customer who has ADSL broadband installed and wants to connect 3 pc's to internet (2 wired, 1 wireless). I purchased a NETGEAR wireless router with built in ADSL Modem. The router will not negotiate at all once it is plugged into the telephone line. I tried the router on a different line and it negotiates straight away. I later find out that the customer had a big issue getting ADSL instralled in the first place becuase the ISP said that the telephone lines/exchange weren't upto it and that the distance between the exchange and his house was too great. After much arguing with the ISP they eventually came back to the customer and said that it could be done. His current BT Speedtouch ADSL modem will negotiate on his telephone line but the NETGEAR router won't. I'm assuming that the quality of the line/connection is not sufficient for the netgear router and hence it won't negotiate.
So, as a workaround I am wondering if the following is a possible solution:

Network all 3 pc's using the netgear router, but don't connect it to the phone line. Keep his current ADSL connection on the master PC. Disable DHCP on the Netgear router and use Microsoft's Internet connection sharing within XP to share the ADSL internet connection. I'm hoping that this way I can still get his laptop to connect to the internet wirelessly.
Do you think this will work?

Cheers

Paul

[freddy]

paul ,try using the bt voyager 200 , ,,,then to a router ,,,and to wireless,

i find that the 200 is quite strong ,,,in that I have managed to get a a good signal, whereas on the voyager 100 it was week

the 200 has usb and a network port out ,,

[paul.rowling]

Hi Freddy,

Thanks for your post, I want to be able to do this without having to buy anymore hardware and to also make it work with the netgear router I have already, that way I don't need to send it back.

Cheers

Paul

[confus-ed]

Can you not connect the modem that will work on this 'iffy' line to the other router/modem combo ? ( or not all the right connectors ?)- it seems to me 'mad' to have a router & then not use it as a 'buffer' to the outside world & start using ics ..

btw if the ISP is providing the BT modem, perhaps given the nature of this, they might be persuaded to swap that out for something that can connect to the router, admittedly this seems to ignore the real problem, but I appreciate the 'further cost' implication

[hudsonsmith]

Can you use the Netgear solely as a router but not as a modem? In other words, connect the BT modem to the Netgear, disable the Netgear modem functions but enable DHCP. If the Netgear won't do this, I say return it and get a modemless router that will. I have a similar setup with a Westell modem and Linksys router and it works swimmingly.