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Well I ended up installing win2k on the AMD PC. ICS is working great and we even get a better connection speed. I was also able to serve a Counter Strike game and have all 3 PCs join. Thanks for all the help ppl. HNC

But the other PCs can't even get online so I wouldn't be able to connect game.

Well I ran into a little problem. Like I said we have 4 PCs but mine is the only one with win2k. The PC that I want to enable ICS on is an AMD K6-2 266 with 64MB SDRAM runinng win98se. I thinking of installing win2k on that machine but I thought win98se would run better. So I installed 2 3Com NICs on that machine then enabled ICS. My PC can't see any other PC on the network except itself. The AMD PC can't see anyone and the other 2 PCs can see everyone. I don't understand how that is possible. It doesn't make any sense. Needless to say ICS didn't work. I tried to manually configure the other PCs by specifing the IP address of the AMD PC as the gateway. Nothing seemed to work. I've got a couple of questions. Why can't my PC, with win2k, see anyone on the network? Would I better off installing win2k on the AMD PC? How do I manually configure ICS on the other PCs? What should be selected for primary network logon? Thanks for all the help. HNC Other info: File and printer sharing is installed on all PCs. We're using 192.168.0.X for the IP addresses and 255.255.255.0 for the subnet mask. Both IPX and TCP/IP are installed on all PCs along with Client for Microsoft Networks.

That is how we currently have the cable modem setup. I was trying to setup ICS because we do have 4 PCs but only 3 IP addresses. Would I get better performance from games online using ICS? Or would it be better to setup a server? Also how much is a switch and where could i get one?

Thanks for the help. We are alpha testing the Cox@Home service in our area so the problem with the bandwith could be due to that. We don't notice any slow down when we all surf the web...its only when 3 of us try to play games at the same time. I have a couple of other questions though. If I install both NICs in my machine and use ICS so the other PCs can connect to the net will that slow down our connection? If we all turn on file and printer sharing will everyone in the @home network be able to see our PCs? Thanks again, HNC

Thanks for the info. We actually got it setup and running, but my roommates think it will slow our connection down. I'm not sure if it would and they wouldn't stop *****in' so we hooked the cable modem up the hub again. Currently only 2 of us can play CounterStrike online at a time. Since we have four PCs I was thinking that we could us the 4th PC to serve a game then we could all join. Would that allow us all to play? Also, is there anyway we would all be able to see each other on the network if cox won't allow us to use file and printer sharing? HNC

Has anyone been able to transfer MP3s to compact flash cards? I installed the drive using the win2k drivers. But I tried both RealJuke Box and MusicMatch but neither work.

I looked through the old posts on sharing cable modems and they all say the same thing. Which is to go into Network and Dial-up Connections and right click on the connection and goto properties, then the sharing tab. well the Cox@Home service doesn't setup a dial-up connection and the only icon in there is a Local Area Connection icon. when i click on that it gives me the properties for my network card (TCP/IP, NWlink IPX, and etc.) and there isn't any sharing tab. How else can I share the cable modem? Cox@Home has given us 3 IP addresses which work fine but we can no longer see each other on the LAN. I think I need to setup a server but I'm not sure Thanks, HNC other info: OS is win2k final. The cable modem is connected directly to the hub. We have 4 PCs and an extra network card if we need it.