is dial-up ok?

What make and model wireless router did you buy?

Steve

There are some routers that will make a dialup connection, but they are very specialized.  Since you can't provide the model number, I can't tell if yours will or won't. 

Since the most common routers will not make a dialup connection, the way to do it with these routers is to put the router in Access Point Mode.  Then connect it through one of its ethernet ports to the computer that will make the dialup connection and install Interenet Connection Sharing (part of Windows) on that computer.  In Access Point Mode, the router will not be assigning an IP address to the wireless network card.  The IP address for the wireless card, will, however, be assigned by Internet Connection Sharing on the computer that makes the dialup connection.

Steve

I have a netgear router and I can confirm that what volcano says will work if you have one of the computers connected.

The router I have is the WGR614 v4.

i have it - Netgear 802.11b/g 54Mbps wireless broadband router

no idea offhand. believe it was a linksys (sp?) broadband router. never thought i would need broadband service - thought that merely was the ceiling capacity. i'd be happy to eat the router and buy something that works with dial-up, if necessary. probably still cheaper than monthly DSL

thanks very much, i'll give that a try

Wireless routers with that capability seem few and far between. I have a Lucent Orinoco RG-1000 with that capability, but I couldn't get it to work with Juno dial-up and had to switch to a local ISP. Dell offered the same model a couple of years back, re-branded as a TrueMobile RG-100 or something. I think one of the Buffalo Air Station models also had this capability, but it may be out of production too.

GM

Yes, router's with a built in modem are hard to find, and often will not work with ISP's that use their own software to connect.  That said, they will let you connect other computers when the main computer is offline -- which is a huge plus is most cases