Dreambox Running off Wireless Dongle

[bees2000]

Hi

I was thinking of buying a dreambox 500s to use in a caravan over the summer, I have a portable satelite dish but no broadband feed.

I was wondering if I could hook my laptop up to a dreambox with a network cable and use a wireless dongle in the laptop to provide my broadband feed.

Has anyone tried this ? Will it work ?

I know that the dongle speeds for broadband are generally slower than a phone line feed and was wondering if this would make viewing glitchy.

I don't want to shell out and find I have gone down the wrong route.

any suggestions would be helpful

thanks

Bees

[Grizz]

yup this will work. unless the speeds are total rubbish it shouldnt glitch your box

[nathan2007]

be interested to see if this works as im thinking of buying a caravan for summer

[Grizz]

will work, i had the same setup before i made my box wireless.

[bees2000]

Is there any particular dongle or network
you would recommend ?

[Grizz]

sorry bud, i cant reccomend because im prolly on the opposite side of pond to you and not sure who provides the best mobile bb in UK. you should be ok whatever you chose as long as your ping is fairly fast.

[chavslav]

i'm running 2 boxes off a payg dongle from vodafone, or was as i've glitched on something else but thats nothing to do with this.

pc/laptop wireless, picks up wireless signal from vodafone r101 sharing dock,ethernet cable out of dock into home plugs i have 3 of these, homeplug 1,is incoming ethernet, homeplug 2 dm500s,homeplug 3 tm500 super, all works fine,before that, i had payg dongle in pc enabled sharing in network center and had ethernet out of pc into tm500, i was only running one box then, check your postcode against payg coverage, i've heard the 3 network is better, hope this helps you mate..

[thered]

Too make this work do i


attach dongle to lap top

attach laptop to dreambox with crossover cable

do i then set dm dhcp or manual?

do i need to set up laptop to act as router if so how?

ty

[Grizz]

dongle to laptop,
crossover to Dreambox
use DHCP

IIRC you may have to bridge the connections in your network settings after you have everything connected (although that maybe only if your laptop is connecting to internet wirelessly, not with a plugged in dongle)

sorry i couldnt be more help but its 3 or 4 years since i had the set up so its a little hazy

[thered]

dongle to laptop,
crossover to Dreambox
use DHCP

IIRC you may have to bridge the connections in your network settings after you have everything connected (although that maybe only if your laptop is connecting to internet wirelessly, not with a plugged in dongle)

sorry i couldnt be more help but its 3 or 4 years since i had the set up so its a little hazy

Thanks will have a test see if it works ok at home before i take it out think i lost my crossover cable though