[IBCP] How to tie two laptops and a printer together, + Verizon Am.Choice cellphone

Sunday, December 11, 2011 | Mbah Wo
di 6:18 AM |

When we travel, if wireless access is not available, we have used Verizon's Americas' Choice plan on my Casio cell phone for internet access via a USB cable - on one computer at a time. I have used a red crossover cable to tie the two laptops together when we have one fee based wireless account/password (like $$ Tengonet), and just log on through one laptop. But I have been unable to tie the two laptops together in similar fashion to simultaneously access the internet through my cellphone. Worse, I was unable to tie the 2 together at all with a crossover cable once one computer was upgraded to Windows 7. Maybe that was just that I hadn't figured out how to do it. But now we have 2 Windows 7 laptops, so that's a newer challenge. Also, we now have a wireless printer as well. They all tie together at home on my DSL router just fine. But how to do it when I don't have a DSL line to connect to the internet?

I suppose I could still use a router to create a network in the MH and tie the 2 laptops and the printer together. However, that router wouldn't be connected to the net. I can connect one laptop to the net through my Casio cellphone, but I don't know how to make the other cellphone and the new printer/fax access the net through the laptop connected to the cell phone. I am not looking to upgrade my Verizon service (and lose access to the Americas' Choice plan.) Can anyone offer some advice on how to do this?

A second question is: how can I use the fax modem built into my new printer to connect and dial my cellphone?

Dave J

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