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| Thread ID: 67069 | 2006-03-16 01:38:00 | Sharing ADSL | Tukapa (62) | Press F1 |
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| 438500 | 2006-03-16 01:38:00 | Hi I am in the position where I have sold my house and am about to live with the in-laws until my new house is built. I cannot do without my broadband plan so have organised to have it connected at the in-laws who have previously only had dial up. My machine has an internal PCI ADSL modem which works great. I also have networking built into my motherboard and I run XP Pro. The in-laws machine is also running XP (Pro I think) and has built in networking. What I want to know is it possible to just connect my machine to the other machine with a short crossover cable and enable both machines to use the broadband or do I need a router? I intend on sitting the boxes next to each other and using a KVM for the other bits. Cheers. :waughh: |
Tukapa (62) | ||
| 438501 | 2006-03-16 01:51:00 | no it's very easy to do with just a 'crossover network' ........I'd suggest rather than trying to use microsoft ICS program goto www.analogx.com and look thru the network section till you find 'proxy' it's an exceptionally simple program to setup and use and allows very simple means to share the connection..... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 438502 | 2006-03-16 01:51:00 | www.analogx.com | drcspy (146) | ||
| 438503 | 2006-03-16 02:33:00 | See this thread. pressf1.pcworld.co.nz I personally don't recomend internal PCI ADSL modems, and software only internet sharing; just seems too insecure, and much harder to stabilize. |
kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 438504 | 2006-03-16 03:08:00 | WELL they've already got the pci adsl modem so thats a given........as for 'software internet sharing' hard to stabliize.....dunno about that I've set up numerous systems with that analogx proxy program and it worked very well in all cases without later problems at all..... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 438505 | 2006-03-16 04:05:00 | Perhaps the ideal is to have a ethernet ADSL router/modem. But there is no reason why you cannot use internet sharing - main downside is that the PC with the modem has to be going to get internet access! | johnd (85) | ||
| 438506 | 2006-03-16 04:53:00 | I assume that the computer with the internal ADSL modem also has a network card? You'll need a crossover cable to link it directly to your second machine, and you'll need to set the first machine to allow sharing of the internet through the network card, which will then become 168.192.0 .1 (or is it 192.168.0.1?) and will through the magic of DHCP decide what your other machines IP addy is. if the other machine was used with DSL, it should already be set up for DHCP, otherwise known as "server assigned IP" Its fairly easy, even under windows... you'll see :D |
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