Networking with Telstra Broadband Satellite (5 posts)

Diane Ellis Posted 9 years, 4 months ago Joined: 12 years, 5 months ago

I have 2 PC's networked using USB Ethernet adapters and a NETGEAR hub. We connect to the Internet using Telstra Broadband satellite (Direcway). With our current configuration, the Direcway modem is attached to one PC, which must be up for the other PC to use the Internet.

Also, even if the "host" PC is up, the other PC cannot initiate the Internet connection (even though I have set this option to yes in the TCP/IP definition on the host) as the Direcway software cannot detect the satellite modem (as it is directly attached to the other PC).

I thought I could get around this by buying another USB Ethernet adapter, plugging the Direcway modem into this, and then joining it onto the network. Alas, now the host PC cannot connect as Direcway cannot detect the modem.

Has anyone else come across this problem and been able to solve it? Telstra will not provide support for networked PC's, so there's no point asking them.

Thanks for your help.
Di

Anonymous Posted 9 years, 3 months ago Joined: 12 years, 5 months ago

Re: Networking with Telstra Broadband Satellite

Hi Di,

I am not too familiar with Broadband Satellite but quite familiar with ADSL. Telstra initially provided ADSL users with a choice of 2 types of modems, one with a single Ethernet port and one with 4 Ethernet ports. The single port modem does not have any internal capability for establishing a PPP connection to the ISP i.e. not able to store a user name/password etc. So it requires a PC (or router) to initiate the connection using say Dial-up Networking or other third party software.

Once connected to the Internet you can use Windows Internet Connection Sharing to provide Internet to other clients on the network. ICS allows the PC to act as a Gateway and provide DNS information to the local network.

The 4-port modem can also be used this way but additionally has internal PPP, meaning you can store your username/password in the modem itself, and have the modem act as the gateway/router providing DNS etc. So you could set up the 4 port modem on a network plugged directly into a hub and have all local PC's pointing to the modem (Gateway/DNS) and not require any dialup software, like Dialup Networking or Telstra's ADSL software, just tcp/ip configuration.

Looking at your problem I would say your modem doesnÃÂÃÂt have any internal PPP capability like the single port ADSL modem and requires a router or PC with dialup software (Direcway) to connect to the net meaning your "Server" PC would have to remain on and connected for other PC's to access the net.

I would recommend testing your PC's security once connected at "Shields Up" - http://grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1ck2l2 as the single port ADSL modem doesnÃÂÃÂt provide security like the 4 port model (which uses NAT)

Regards
Bret

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Networking with Telstra Broadband Satellite (5 posts)

Networking with Telstra Broadband Satellite (5 posts)

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