how to dial into my home broadband.

[tonycmyk]

I have a laptop at home on comcast broad band. I also have a phoneline going into the laptop. I've already configured vista dial in server on the laptop. I cannot make my unlocked dash to use the dialup feature to dial. I know im supposed to setup the DUN feature then launch explorer but when i do that it doesnt dial out.

If i can achieve this, will ATT charge me for the data im using?

I know i havent given all the details of my setup, please ask away.

[jdoggraz]

No, all you have to do is plug your phone into your computer through usb and bam... you will have the internet on your phone too...

[tonycmyk]

Thanks but thats not what im trying to do. WHat im trying to do is to dial into my broadband when im AWAY from home. Obviously if i want to surf from home i can use my pc, use my wifi on my dash or do what u described.

[tonycmyk]

dont all answer at once! does anyone have a clue how to do this

[quiksand]

When you say dial-in, are you trying to access services on your pc? Of you're trying to use your PC as a radius server all you're going to get is 9.6kbps, way slower than edge.

[tonycmyk]

i dont know what a radius server is. Im trying to just dial-in to my pc to use the broadband internet. If i use edge it will cost me. dont want to use edge

[gospeed.racergo]

it doesnt work that way.

[quiksand]

A radius server is what authenticates when you dial in via dial-up. If you dial in via dial up, edge or wifi, you're going to be limited by the bandwidth of the connection you're using to connect to your broadband from. If you're connected at dial-up (9.6kbps) all you're going to get is 9.6Kbps regardless of what you're connecting to. If you used edge all you would get is about 200kbps. If you used wi-fi you'd be limited by the aomount of bandwidth provided by the ISP. Wi-Fi is the way to go but any other connections aren't going to give you broadband speed when the total throughput for each of the methods aside from wi-fi are way lower.

The pipe has to be big at both ends for this to work, if the pipe is smaller on one end then all traffic will be sent out at the smaller pipes bandwidth.

[tonycmyk]

ahh very well explained. It can be done by setting up a radius server but the through put will be like waiting for brittany spears to stop drinking?