Basically is it possible to get access to the net through a router located behind a switch --- read further Thanks.
I'm temporarily living in a 3rd world country. Needless to say, internet access is terribly slow and difficult to obtain.
When I arrived, I noticed an internet cafe next to our office here that claimed to have the fastest connection in town. Just my luck right?
Well it's not a fiber connection but it's good enough to surf the web comfortably at 600kbps. After finding out that the fastest I could get personally from the local ISP was 256kbps for the same price I thought that I could simply pay the cafe a similar fee for a drop from their router and get the fastest connection.
I did just that and was connected just fine for about 6 months when the guy decided without warning or consulting with me that I was hogging too much of his connection. Now the connection was intermittent at best as is, because he turns it off at night and I have to ask If I can think of it to remember to leave the router plugged in at night.
Regardless, what he *HAD*, was a dedicated IP from his ISP at 600kbps hooked into a Netgear router, which was hooked to a switch that served all his computers, inlcuding mine which was depending on his desire, plugged into either the switch or the router. He himself has very little knowledge of networking and asked for assistance from the ISP tech to come help him out with "the problem" of me I guess.
What he did, was hook me into a separate (2nd) switch along with the main line from the ISP and talked to the ISP to give ME a separate IP thinking that I'm a retard and would not know the difference in speed.
He basically took what I pay him and bought a 2nd IP on a different subnet from the ISP a whopping 64kpbsX64 line which is barely faster than dial-up he used to use for his VOIP service.
Basically that bastard is charging me double what the ISP would now for a service that's 6 times slower than what I would get from the ISP directly.
NOW the setup looks like this:
We have the line from the ISP hooked into a switch
I am plugged into the switch
His router is plugged into the switch (which I have access to ("default pass") when I have my router get the IP automatically or by setting it to something internal.
His switch, is plugged into his router which serves his IP and all his computers.
My goal is to temporarily for at least a few days, gain access through his IP served by the router so that I can do some computing until I get my own line from the ISP. However my general understanding of networking is not quite enough to understand if this is even possible now.
He has turned DHCP off on the router, but I can easily turn that back on or set up an exception.
Here's a diagram of what I'm dealing with. P.S. I also have all his settings for his ISP as I can see and have access to his router.
Thanks a million for your time and suggestions.
Regards
