[Solved] ISP only allows wired connection --- NEED WORKAROUND FOR WIRELESS!

Greetings from Afghanistan! I am serving with the Army here, and Internet services in our living quarters are very expensive ($100 / month). As you might imagine with the price, there is only one choice for an ISP here (http://afghan.sniperhill.net/faq/). It's a terrible value, because the speed is super super slow, and the customer service sucks.

I would like to make my service wireless to share with my roommates, however, THE ISP ONLY ALLOWS WIRED CONNECTIONS, and will not help with setting up routers and access points to work around this. Of course, the real reason they will not do this is that wireless connections will mean fewer subscriptions for them. So much for helping the troops! So this is what I need help with: How can I enable a wireless connection?

I have a WRT54G2 V1 router / access point. I have tinkered with PPOE settings, IP addresses, DNS (changed to Google DNS), and read forum after forum without any luck. I have also tried connecting the ethernet cable to the router, and then another ethernet cable from the router to the back of my computer, and there is still no connection. I do know the ISP uses Microtik: whenever I log on with the ethernet connection successfully, a window pops up that I have connected to a Microtik hotspot. These same login credentials I used with PPOE in the router, and this did not work.

Your exact solution will help the troops level the playing field with this greedy ISP! You'll be a hero here in Afghanistan. Thanks much. Cheers.

Popeye

Are you sure the defense force allow you to use wifi (for security reason)? Better check it, don't want you to get into trouble.

They are probably blocking you because they detect network address translation (NAT) or detect your MAC belongs to a router.

I am new in the area of avoiding detection as well since I never had an isp doing this. I will look up a solution and see if it helps.

So you have an external ip address and your router share this and allocate a new ip address for every device behind it if you activate NAT.

The isp detects this and disable it, to avoid this you have to enable DMZ and expose the ip behind the router to the internet.

Then you run into security problem.

You also spoof the MAC address of the router to that of your network card.

Sorry I am low on this side of knowledge.

Can someone with more knowledge on bypassing isp restriction help? I would also like to learn it, in case I will need it in the future.

[quotemsg=121784,4,861134]The isp detects this and disable it, to avoid this you have to enable DMZ and expose the ip behind the router to the internet.

Then you run into security problem. You also spoof the MAC address of the router to that of your network card. [quotemsg]

Could you give me more of a step by step for how to do either of these actions (i.e. 1) enable DMZ, and expose IP behind the router, and 2) spoof MAC address on network card).

Thanks for submitting whatever you can....

Popeye

I have a router with the 2 antennas and I still can't get it to work right. I have it wired up correctly. But I can't get a connection. I even had a Sniper Hill ip on the WAN portion but no data was passing. Im still researching trying to find a work around. Hopefully one of us will come up with something.

Majikman

I ordered a Belkin N150, worked for me. It was tricky to set up (about 2.5 painstaking hours), but it works! Thanks so much, wankel77.

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