Backup for internet access.

[Boaz Bezborodko]

On 11/2/2012 11:57 AM, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> On 11/2/2012 11:22 AM, Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
>> I hope everyone in the path of the storm is recovering well.
>>
>> Yesterday I tried to get our systems online with a generator. That was
>> no problem.  But I was hampered by not being able to get internet
>> access.  Our previous plans included using a cell phone for internet
>> access.  This worked in the past, but this time the service during the
>> outage was horrible.  Turns out that AT&T's old 3G and 4G service just
>> isn't keeping up.  I didn't have a 4G-LTE phone which is supposed to be
>> better, but I did have a T-Mobile Samsung unit.  Thing is this will not
>> tether to an XP machine without certain drivers and I couldn't download
>> them through the AT&T phones I had.  I was able to connect to a laptop
>> with Windows 7, but I couldn't get the LAN to be able to access this
>> service.
>>
>> What do other people use and what should I be looking at for internet
>> access during such a situation?
>
> While I have not personally used them, there are 4G WiFi access 
> points, which appear just like any other WiFi access point (no drivers 
> needed), but rather than connecting to your ISP via a wire, it 
> connects to the 4G cell phone network.
>

How do I bridge an access point to the rest of the LAN so that the other 
computers have network access.?