Comments on: El networko del wirelesso in la home-o of meo

By: Gautam

Gautam — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:15:23 +0000

Hi:

I too live in Wadala East and I believe that Wilson has a monopoly in this area.. I have tried to get a broadband connection from several service porviders and have been turned down due to the locality.. I think these guys (Wilson) are internet goons and I am being overcharged since I have a connection for which I pay as per usage (upload/download) MB. It seems to get exhuasted ever other week - I think that the plan I am on is a 1400 MB plan with spped of 256 Kbps speed. Can someone guide me as to what a suitable plan should cost ona monthly basis for a single user for personal inter usage.. Much Appreciated!!

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By: cloud9ine

cloud9ine — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:30:24 +0000

Enjoyed the humor!

I have the reverse predicament though. As the gateway, I see it would work.. but how else did you have it configured originally..?

As to everyone who suggested the router do the PPPoE, we can go a step further and have the Cable/DSL modem do the PPPoE auth and be a DHCP server so you never ever need to change settings anywhere else, and can hook up anything you want on the end of that LAN cable from your modem (router / laptop / desktop / refrigerator - sorry, not ANYthing

By: JJ

JJ — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:40:38 +0000

what to do if your neighbor steals your wireless - funny - http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html

By: Mojo

Mojo — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:26:06 +0000

I stay in Wadala. I have recently noticed a new unsecured Wi-Fi connection, which I have been happily using. Upto now I was not sure who to thank for the benevolence. Now I know. And yes, I am calling the Wilson cable people rightaway to let them know I don’t need any internet subscription. I think that that will add to my safety perception.

By: Sangeetha

Sangeetha — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:31:22 +0000

hehe…..congratulations on getting wirless!

btw, what’s the network coverage area of your router? was just wondering how many internet-less souls could benefit from your wifi home of course, only if you were unsmart enough to keep the access free

By: Bhushir

Bhushir — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:23:55 +0000

Jeez man!

I’ve read tech magazines since 9th grade.. but still its not as close to what ‘gyaan’ u jus gave.!

Awesome stuff.! Great goin Sidin.. And the missus too!

By: jetak

jetak — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 05:03:00 +0000

Hi Sidin,
don’t want to take away the credit - but there is no need to for all this circus.
The restriction put by Wilson cable is nothing new. all broadband service providers like BSNL, Airtel etc allow only one device to be directly connected to internet. i.e, only one PPPoE connection and only one IP address.

What you need is:
configure the wireless router to do PPPoE and connect to internet. Enable DHCP on the wirless router so that it will allocate IP address to all machines at your home. all machines at your home will use wireless router as the router. (i.e. none of your laptops should do PPPoE. They just connect to wireless router over wifi and use wireless router as the router).

The wireless router will do NAT ( i.e. convert IP address of all lap tops so that into the internet only one IP address goes).

The advantage with this is, you do not have the restriction of connecting multiple machines at the same time. You can connect as many as you want.

Jetak

By: Prasanna

Prasanna — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:14:03 +0000

Well, if you got a good wireless router, you’d be able to make its public interface MAC address cloned. Then use that as the gateway. Your laptops/PCs would revert to their original MAC addresses.

Of course the router does NAT, so the cable folks have no way of knowing there are two devices on your network. The router must dialup with PPPoE.

Guaranteed to work :-).

IAANE (I Am A Network Engineer)

By: Dramatist

Dramatist — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:43:26 +0000

My comment is to your lastest rediff article on modern art.
i was in bits when i read:
“But to me, from a purely existential perspective untinged by context, it looks like a lungi draped over an old bicycle?”

hahaha… lol

But on a serious note your articles on rediff lack genuine humour. Blog entries here are more interesting