Sharing EvDo USB device on Wireless Router TP-Link, D-Link, LinkSys
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 23:04Wireless networking is spreading day by day and replacing every wired device one by one. In Pakistan, recently PTCL and Wordcall launched wireless broadband formely known as EV-DO (Evolution Data Optimized) USB device powered broadband. To learn more about EV-DO visit this link
Today, we bought PTCL’s USB EvDo device for our newly born office. We have to setup EvDo USB device, TP-Link wireless router and plan to share EvDo USB ’s internet via TP-Link wireless router, we had spent 3 hours struggling to fight with that, tryout every possible solution and at the end get a final solution, so I am going share it so that you can be get benefit from our experience.
Suppose, you have EvDo USB device, TP-Link or any other Wireless router, a PC or Laptop whose lan cabel should be plugged into Wireless router’s LAN port. You just need to follow these simple step to setup your sharing EvDo sharing with Wireless router.
Step-1: Open web admin panel of your wireless router, usually typing 192.168.1.1 in your browser will open it.
Step-2: Then give your wireless router an IP on the LAN side of 192.168.0.254 or 192.168.0.x (x is something between greater than 1 to 254), you have to think about what IP should be reserved for your router.
Step-3: Then turn off the DHCP server in the router.
Step-4: That’s all with your wireless router, do nothing with your WAN or any settings.
Step-5: Now goto your PC/laptop from where your EvDo is connected.
Step-6: Goto your Controll Panel then Network Connections.
Step-7: Right click on EvDo connection icon and select properties and goto Advance Tab.
Step-8: Check allow other users to connect through this computers connection and also checked the allow others to control the shared connection and click OK.
Step-9: When enabling ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) a windows warning message may alert you that the LAN Adapter will be set to 192.168.0.1 or something like that. It means that your LAN card’s IP address is automatically set to 192.168.0.1 with 255.255.255.0 subnet mask, please make sure you do not modify it otherwise sharing will not work. If 192.168.0.1 is not set on your LAN card’s IP settings then set this IP address by opening connection properties and IPv4 settings give it.
Step-10: Next final step, goto your laptop whome you want to connect to wireless router and use Internet. Then goto my network connections on it. Right clicked my wireless adapter and go to properties.
Then proceded to change its tcp/ip settings. Try to give an IP from range 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.253 with mask 255.255.255.0 and gateway of 192.168.0.1
Be sure to also place in the perferred DNS 192.168.0.1
That’s it, Your PTCL, Wordcall EvDo will now working fine with Wireless router.
jude says:
June 26th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Hi Faisal,
I’m Jude from the Philippines and am working here in Lahore. I am a Database programmer (old school though…a master of Clipper in the past, and then switched to Access when Clipper was dumped, and thus far I have made many programs using Access with VBA. I tried switching to the full-blown VB, but time does not allow me.) I had a bit of experience with Networking, but never through wireless, which is a rather new technology for me. In short, I have never set up Wi-Fi and DSL for anybody.
Early this month, PTCL launched its wireless so I bought my EVDO-PTCL USB 3 weeks ago with the intention of sharing it to my colleagues via Wi-Fi. When I read your article of June 10 (Sharing EvDo USB device on Wireless Router TP-Link, D-Link, LinkSys), I was encouraged to proceed buying a D-Link Wireless Router from Hafeez. I just did so today (26th of June) and sat down to work. But from the very first step I was bogged down….you said:
Step-1: Open web admin panel of your wireless router, usually typing 192.168.1.1 in your browser will open it.
Well, I have Windows Vista Ultimate in my laptop.
I am normally using Mozilla Firefox version 3.
Now I connected the Router Lan Port 1 to my laptop’s Lan port.
and followed step one.
Browser simply told me “unable to connect”.
I don’t know what “web admin panel of your wireless router” is!
I tried installing the CD that came along with the Wireless router but it seems it’s instructions are for those with normal DSL modem.
How do I proceed? Or better, how do I start?!!!
I would be very grateful if you can help.
More power to you.
Jude
Aamir says:
June 29th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
I am using worldcall evDo devic. but evDo connection not showing in Network Connections. so what should i do?
Asdaq says:
June 30th, 2009 at 10:54 am
But this requires one machine to be on 24hours without need or need. Dedicate one machine for sharing internet.
jude says:
July 1st, 2009 at 9:22 pm
I have succeeded in installing the WiFi with EVDO. Yes we have to dedicate one machine to run 24 hours. In the beginning I thought that since all my colleagues use the laptop, one laptop would broadcast to the rest. But this defeats the purpose of a laptop (that it should be mobile!)… so I got one PC, bought a PC UPS to always have the power also for the Wireless router and it’s functioning very well now.
In free space areas it is working well even at 200 meters distance, but in the building, my laptop in the first floor has very low signal. My EVDO is in the 3rd floor. I see that concrete blocks well wireless signal.
nadeem says:
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Hmm .. nice and informative conversion
Waseem Malik says:
July 6th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Thanks very much for such a informative article.
I browsed this on Internet on several Pakistani forums, but many of them no such post, some says that it is impossible to share EvDo for networking. I was losing hope then find you blog post luckily, Now i also have setup my wireless network by using EvDo…..
Thanks once again.
Rao Shamim says:
July 13th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
I am also using worldcall evDo devic. but evDo connection not showing in Network Connections. so what should i do?
Wasif says:
July 29th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
same problem here…i am using vista n evdo is not showing in ‘network & sharing centre’ wat sud i do??
vanrodden says:
August 23rd, 2009 at 7:05 am
Hi my friend from Pakistan… Thanks a lot!! You’re the best!… I was spending over three weeks since bought my Encore Wifi router without to able configuring it until bumped into your blog. I’m from Venezuela, Latin America, I’m working with five laptops and only two of them could access to internet thru my CDMA usb modems (Franklin CDU-680 USB Modem and Huawei 3G USB Modem). It really works!! Thanks again. Allah bless you all.
Talha says:
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Hi,
is there any solution where i can share my evdo internet over wifi? i have two laptops both have wifi. currently only laptop at a time can connect to evdo .. is there any software/way through which i can share that internet over wifi so the other laptop can connect to my 1st laptop wirelessly and use evdo’s internet?
Faisal says:
November 9th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Talha,
The above method will work for you, as we have successfully shared the EvDo over wifi. You just use your 1st laptop, connect it with evdo and from its LAN interface connect laptop to wifi router. and you wifi will start broadcasting Internet.
or you can use WLAM instead, i am not sure.
Let me know if it works or not ?
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Lahoree says:
February 25th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Thanks. This saved us a lot of time!!
Fux P1 says:
March 15th, 2010 at 2:35 am
Thanks for sharing the infos, i found it very useful. I’m reading your blog from my hotel room