[tunnu]

I've a PPPOE internet connection with a username and password. The
local ISP guy has put a switch on my terrace and stretched the CAT 5 cable directly
into my desktop ethernet card.

So before connecting to the net with a dialer I've an internal IP address
in the range of 192.168.0.* which is given to me by the local gateway (also a DHCP server).
Once I get connected to the net I've 2 IP addresses the internal
192.168.0.* and the other live IP.

Now I've removed the CAT 5 cable frm my Ethernet card and attached the
same to my wifi router so now I get the internal IP from the wifi router in
the range of 192.168.11.* I've configured the router with my PPPOE
settings which means even if my computer is switched off my net
connection is on coz the internet wire is attached to the wifi router now.

So now heres the question, yesterday my PPPOE account expired but I
dint switch off my router and today I can still access the net even
though my account is expired!! When I check the tracert command it
shows the first hop as my wifi router then it shows all the internet
routers but NOT the local gateway which used to give me the 192.168.0.*
IP address.

Does it mean that I've bypassed the local gateway?? Can they come to know
that am still using an expired account?

There's no cruel intention from my side but being into IT am just
curious to know whats wrong technically coz I dont know much about the
PPPOE internet connection.

Please help

Sunny

[tain]

Did you configure the router to fail over to an available wireless signal?

[jcarle]

If you look inside your router's configuration pages, specifically in the connection status section, you'll notice that your router is simply the one who's picked up the 192.168.0.x IP address which connects to 192.168.0.1.

Also take note, the local gateway in the 192.168.0.x subnet is the DSL modem, not your ISP. DSL modems which give out DHCP assignments are combination DSL modem and routers in one device. Such is the case with almost all SpeedTouch DSL modems for example.