GC: ADSL connection

[marcus_com]

Not sure if it's called ADSL in English but i guess it is. Anyway my question is, how do you connect to the internet with PSO and a BBA if you have ADSL? Everybody here in sweden is naging about stuff like "you must have a router and 2 network cards and so on." But personally I doubt that youll need anything but the BBA. So do you just connect your BBA with the GC and connect a wire from the BBA to your output? (insecure on output but tha thing suggestionaly on the wall where you plug in your network wire.)

[Rich_T]

there was a guide somewhere on here, hers some of the text

"For Windows XP, this is impossibly easy. For Windows 98 SE (Second Edition), it is a bit more complicated, and if you have anything older (Windows 98 First Edition, Windows 95), unfortunately, you will not be able to do it. If you are in charge of your ISP account, it's recommended that you get something other than AoL, such as Earthlink. You can also find a huge, unbeatable list of ISPs here, known as "The List". There's more than enough room to pick and choose, but ideally, you want to avoid something that makes you run proprietary software in order to connect, like Juno, America Online, CompuServe, and so on. You will not be able to use any ISPs like those without setting up ICS and using your computer as a server. If you have a standard ISP like Earthlink or BellSouth which does not require any software to be run in order to connect, you should be able to fill in your generic information in PSO's setup and connect just fine. If you have no choice as to what your ISP is, are currently using something like AOL, and are willing to set up ICS...

* Necessary Items: A GameCube Broadband Adapter (BBA), a networking card (NIC), and an RJ-45 Crossover Cable that will link your networking card and GameCube BBA. (Please make sure you get a Crossover cable, because a standard RJ-45 cable will not work. I recommend buying one off of eBay since they are expensive in retail stores.)

** Windows XP

* Step 1: This will assume that you have some rudimentary Windows XP knowledge. There is a way to do this automatically, by using Windows XP's ICS Wizard, but that has failed on me a few times, so I recommend doing it manually. First, navigate to the "Network and Dial-Up Connections" folder, and open it. Are you connected to the internet? If you are, disconnect before you proceed. Now, click on the "Internet Gateway" icon for your connection (modem), right-click if necessary to bring up a sub-menu, and select "Properties". On the window that comes up, hit the "Advanced" tab, and check "Allow Other Network Users To Connect Through This Computer's Internet Connection". (Self-explanatory, isn't it?) Connect to the internet.

* Step 2: Connect your GC BBA to your NIC by plugging in the RJ-45 Crossover Cable to both. Start up your GameCube, and when PSO's title screen loads, go to "Options", then "Network Option", then "Provider Option". Hit "Yes" to proceed. If you do not already have a networking file, let PSO create one, and if you already have one, hit "Yes" to edit it. Click on "Network Setup", select the name you want to use, and hit "Edit Menu". After you have modified the name of the ISP connection to your liking, hit "Next", and then click the radio button (circle) for "Automatically Obtain IP Address (DHCP)". Keep hitting "Next" until you have the option to hit "Save", and do so, saving your settings.

* Step 3: Try to connect to the 'net with your GameCube. If the connection does not work, you will have to manually set an IP. Proceed with step 4 only if you have to do this.

* Step 4: Return to the "Provider Option" menu in PSO. This time, click on "Manually Set An IP Address". Hit "Next", and for your IP address, put in 192.168.0.200. For your Subnet Mask, put in 255.255.255.0. For your Default Gateway, put in 192.168.1.1. Hit "Next", leaving the DNS fields blank, and "Save" these settings. You should now be able to connect.

* NOTE: I have heard that it is very difficult to get AOL to work with ICS under Windows XP, but I do not know why. I used the above configuration to get a GameCube to connect through a BellSouth DSL USB modem. It should work just as well with an AOL DSL USB modem, so you shouldn't have any problems."


Hope that helps.

isnt sweeden where you can get Broadband internet access at ridicoulsy high speed and realy cheaply?

in the UK, all we get is 512kb download, 215 upload for £30 a month.

[Bloodberry]

152kb up/25 kb/s down, if you're lucky. For about $79.99 a month. Although we do the homenetworking which gives anything hooked up to the main line it's own 152/25 (and the hub made hooking up the cube deliciously easy.)

Actually, that was going to be my point. If you've got some homenetworking deal or anything that comes with a hub there's usually a USB and Ethernet plug, then the dsl cord input for the connection to the phone line, and most hubs I've seen (or rather helped friends try to hook the cube with) take the gamecube connection as it's own entity and let it go through (for once.)

[marcus_com]

Yeah you can get a pretty good connection for a low price, but only if you live in the right area. See my mom lives in the "right" area so home at her place we have 10Mbit Broadband for 30$ a month, wich is pretty cheap. However my dad does not live in the right area so here we have 0.5Mbit ADSL and so I think that it might me quite troublesome to connect with a BBA here since I have Windows 98 first edition. (do'h) At least I think it's the first edition, however we did have windows Xp on the computer for a while, but since it pretty much totally sucked and didn't work all to good on out computer we removed it.

Well the day I try to get online without succes is the day I'll ask a bunch a people to helt me http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif.

[Tavia]

On 2003-02-12 02:04, marcus_com wrote:
so I think that it might me quite troublesome to connect with a BBA here since I have Windows 98 first edition.

That should not really affect you. The information stated above is actually for ICS (Internet Connection Sharing), and if you are getting a PPPoE service -- you can ask your ISP if that is what you have, and it's where you must input a User ID and password to log on -- you will not need to use ICS.

Also, as long as you are not creating a network, you should not have to buy a router, unless you have connection problems. Connecting your BBA directly to your modem should eliminate any errors. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif



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[marcus_com]

Ok, thats good news Tavia, hopefully It'll all go well and i'll be playing online the day I get the game. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

[marcus_com]

Ok, thats good news Tavia, hopefully It'll all go well and i'll be playing online the day I get the game. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif