usb - Connect Mobile phone/ GSM modem to a VPS or hosting dedicated server

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2014-04
  • user3102574

    I have a Nokia E71 phone that I am using for as a GSM modem to send out SMS (text message) through the web application I wrote. Everything is working fine on my local machine and now I am looking to host this application on a VPS (part of a large application already running on VPS) and use this phone to as GSM modem.

    So what I am thinking to do is to connect the phone to local machine and somehow use port redirection in Remote Desktop (RDP) to achieve this.

    is this even possible?

    If Yes: how do I use port redirection in RDP, as I have never use it before and I have just tried but failed with Windows 7 Pro machine (if required I also have Win server 2008 R2 available)

    If No: what is the best way to achieve this.

    FYI: I am trying to avoid using an online SMS gateway because of economic reasons.

    Port: COM 6 > Bits per second: 9600

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  • GPX

    I currently own an ADSL modem. I am planning to buy a D-Link DIR 600 Wireless Router, for setting up a wireless network to play Counter Strike with my buddies. I have a few questions.

    1. How do I set up the router? Am I correct in thinking that I should connect my telephone wire to my modem, my modem to my router, and then my router to my PC?

    2. If I switch on WiFi on the router and let my friends connect to the network to play CS, will the game be actually be played locally or through the internet?

    3. How do I set up only LAN-sharing, without internet? Is it easy to switch between LAN-only sharing and traditional internet sharing?

    EDIT : My ADSL modem is also a router, but it has only 1 ethernet port, which is currently connected to my PC. So I will be connecting my wireless router to my ADSL modem/router.

    To add to question #3:

    After I finish playing CS, I want to be able to continue using the internet on my PC, after switching off WiFi; i.e., stopping my router from beaming my internet connection. How do I do that?


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  • Majenko

    The existing ADSL router is all you need to connect to the internet. Adding a second router is both pointless and expensive. A cheap cable router of the type you are looking at will not work with your ADSL router.

    What you require is a small (maybe 4 of 5 port) switch to increase the number of ethernet ports available on the existing router, and a wireless access point to share the network out as and when you want it.

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    When you want to disable all access to the network through wireless means you can just unplug or turn off the wireless access point.

  • M'vy

    1. If your router is a ADSL-modem/router, you can get the ADSL modem out and just connect the router (you'll need to know the ADSL configuration of your ISP : protocols + credentials). But else your are right. The router will get the public IP from the modem and dispatch to the other networks (Affecting an IP to each if DHCP is active).

    2. If your friends connects to the wireless and your are playing a game, it will be on LAN if the server is on the LAN and you connect to it via a local address (192.168.x.x for example), but if the server is online, it would of course, be through internet. Undefined behaviour if you join a game from a list on the internet and it "fortunately" ends being a server hosted locally : would depend on the games I guess.

    3. You can just disconnect the router from the modem, or maybe the router has an option to close a port. Then all traffic can only go between peers. Be advise that LAN-Sharing for file etc may have to be enabled on the OSes. For games, it's generally not a problem since it's just networking stuff. Then if the hosts can pings that should be ok (!!Firewalls!!)