Wireless modem wireless router connection

cheezo · January 8th, 2008, 09:00 PM

My brother recently got a wireless modem from verizon. I dont know much about it except he said it connects via usb. They said at the verizon store that it worked off of cell towers. My question is this, is there a way to connect it to a wired/wireless router or any way to connect to it through his computer so that he will have a wireless network throught his house so his laptop will be connected to the net as well.

**GroundZero3** · January 9th, 2008, 09:49 AM

A model of the device would be a big help

nemowolf · January 9th, 2008, 02:20 PM

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/s...eless+pc+cards

Verizon Wireless UM150 USB Modem
Verizon Wireless USB720 Modem
Verizon Wireless AirCard® 595U USB Modem
Verizon Wireless USB727 Modem

Not that many out there ...

Keymaker · January 9th, 2008, 05:50 PM

EDIT-READ WRONG!

Yes, post the model please.

Thought you wanted to connect to the house network on the road with a laptop.

A router just plugs into the modem's output jack (WAN connection) then the desktop gets plugged into one of the routers LAN ports 1-4 and the laptop can share the connection wirelessly with the router. A router is used to share a network connection with more than one computer. Wired or wirelessly.

Crap! I forgot that the modem gets the signal from an antenna. So there may not not be a jack.

What you could do then is bridge the USB connection to a router. I think..

cheezo · January 9th, 2008, 06:19 PM

It is a usb720 modem.

nemowolf · January 9th, 2008, 09:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Keymaker

EDIT-READ WRONG!
What you could do then is bridge the USB connection to a router. I think..

Bridgeing the connection out from his laptop would be the only way as i doubt there is a device that takes a USB modem ... Can he return for a PCMCIA card?

http://reviews.cnet.com/routers/top-...-31890358.html

Keymaker · January 10th, 2008, 02:37 AM

No, I meant a network bridge in the desktop. When you plug the USB modem into the computer; software that comes with it will more than likely create a network adapter in the network adapters section of the control panel. I think you could bridge that to the desktop's network card and therefore use a router from that.

I know you can bridge a PCMCIA card to the NIC of a laptop. My bro did this to a Sprint mobile card and shared that connection out from the laptop to a desktop. So this is the same idea.