Do I need high speed internet for a wireless router to work?

Thanks for the reply. Right now, I want to set up a wireless home network so
that I can transfer files from one computer to the others, print from one of
two printers, and play multiplayer games. Cable and dsl isn't available in
my area so I am stuck with dial-up. I didn't know that sharing dial-up is
allowed. Well, I don't need to share the internet connection. Right now, I
have four computers. Two running windows vista home basic and the other two
running windows xp. They all have wireless card built-in or wireless usb
adapter. I don't have a wireless router yet because I am trying to find the
answer to my question before I go and buy. Again, all I need is a wireless
home network to share files, printer, and play multiplayer games, like Age of
Empire, Black hawk down, etc.


"Malke" wrote:

> dispiece wrote:

> > I want to set up a home network with a wireless router. Do I need high speed
> > internet for the router to work? Sorry if this is a stupid question.

>
> I'm not sure if your question has to do with wanting to know if you can
> set up a wireless router with dialup Internet access or if you just want
> to set up a Local Area Network (lan) wirelessly but with no Internet access.
>
> In both cases the answer is yes. Here's a link about sharing dialup:
>
> http://www.ezlan.net/DialUp.html
>
> If you need more than this, please post back with a more complete
> description of your computers and what you are trying to do.
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:46:10 -0800, dispiece
<dispiece@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Thanks for the reply. Right now, I want to set up a wireless home network so
>that I can transfer files from one computer to the others, print from one of
>two printers, and play multiplayer games. Cable and dsl isn't available in
>my area so I am stuck with dial-up. I didn't know that sharing dial-up is
>allowed. Well, I don't need to share the internet connection. Right now, I
>have four computers. Two running windows vista home basic and the other two
>running windows xp. They all have wireless card built-in or wireless usb
>adapter. I don't have a wireless router yet because I am trying to find the
>answer to my question before I go and buy. Again, all I need is a wireless
>home network to share files, printer, and play multiplayer games, like Age of
>Empire, Black hawk down, etc.
>
>
>"Malke" wrote:
>

>> dispiece wrote:

>> > I want to set up a home network with a wireless router. Do I need high speed
>> > internet for the router to work? Sorry if this is a stupid question.

>>
>> I'm not sure if your question has to do with wanting to know if you can
>> set up a wireless router with dialup Internet access or if you just want
>> to set up a Local Area Network (lan) wirelessly but with no Internet access.
>>
>> In both cases the answer is yes. Here's a link about sharing dialup:
>>
>> http://www.ezlan.net/DialUp.html
>>
>> If you need more than this, please post back with a more complete
>> description of your computers and what you are trying to do.
>>
>>
>> Malke
>> --
>> Elephant Boy Computers
>> www.elephantboycomputers.com
>> "Don't Panic!"
>> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>>

there are Wireless routers and there are Wireless "Access points".
An access point may not provide DHCP services (and is un-wanted if you
run Internet connection sharing).
Personal preference is separate boxes for separate functions.
Therefore, my router handles the DSL, DHCP and I use a access point
that just allows wireless to attach to my network.

\The advantages are; I can reboot any piece without disturbing the
wired network (except the DHCP part). My higher end router even has a
dial up (as a backup) feature, so no specific computer hosts the dial
up and auto-switch (if enabled) happens without user intervention.