DISQUS

Grafxgurl · 2 years ago

sigh, we have that at my parents' home in Bangkok. i miss it so much.
i think im going to bribe my husband into getting one soon.
oh and you really MUST love the people in your blogroll THAT much to place them twice! thats why they didnt say anything!! they loved it!

that or your blog had hiccups.

sabbah haji · 2 years ago

Hurrah! I love your blog. Came here fortuitously [5 syllables!] while randomly surfing blogs. A Romila 's blog [Rustic Notes] claimed you were Wodehousian in style and this I had to see for myself. So I came here and I "yenjaaied like yenything" though I must say, I have only read the one hair-raising tale of your illegally outfoxing the Wilson Cable-wallahs.
I think I shall be back. This is promising.

maxdavinci · 2 years ago

dang! I majored in comp networks and till I reached the end of this post , it didnt hit me to use the router as a gateway...

way to go sidin!

RS · 2 years ago

Please to be using WPA and not WEP, or neighbours will be stealing your net. Issued in public interest. Yes Mr. Neighbour, I have been mooching off your connection for two months now. I hope you have an unlimited plan.

bhanu · 2 years ago

Sidin,
You should have asked us the readers !!!!, Thats what I have at my home, I have a regular router connected to cable modem and another wireless one to be used as a gateway.
For the last five years, bathroom magazines were replaced by the laptop :-).

So did you say dialup from the laptop ?
Was is a dialup over normal cable ? or DSL ?
Whats the best speed you can buy in Mumbai ?

check your speed at

www.dsl-speed.org

www.dslreports.com/speedtest

Aravind · 2 years ago

"I had tears in my eyes. I ran to her and fell to my knees as I tripped over the internet wire. But no matter. I got up and did exactly as she wanted me to: did the dishes and put out the washing to dry.

Then I worked on the router."

ROTFL

Rrandom · 2 years ago

Fantastic...only now if you could publish a DIY router setup up thingie for low tech folks...
happy D!

Krishna · 2 years ago

as of now i connect my wire-full LAN using the same technique. my friend told me it was a bit retrograde. but now i know it is a safer bet... then again I don't have Wilson Cable ... MTNL zindabad!

Arun · 2 years ago

look , Ma ! No wires ...
hilarious one,mate !

Dramatist · 2 years ago

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 :)

Prasanna · 2 years ago

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)

jetak · 2 years ago

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

Bhushir · 2 years ago

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! :)

Sangeetha · 2 years ago

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 :P of course, only if you were unsmart enough to keep the access free ;-)

Mojo · 2 years ago

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.

JJ · 2 years ago

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

cloud9ine · 2 years ago

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 :)

Gautam · 1 year ago

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!!