Sharing a cable modem

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Hi. I just thought I would pass on my experience of sharing a cable modem with two or more computers in a small home LAN.

 

When I first tried to do this, I used a well known program called Sygate 4. Now even though most, if not all Cable sharing sites will recommend using this, I found it to be over rated and basically, mediocre. It uses DHCP to set up the other computer which is fine, but the program likes to crash alot. I also suffered what I would call 'bandwith blackouts' where my computer, being the server would freeze any activity that involved the cable modem. Browsing a page, downloading, anything. No data at all would be sent through the modem and this would happen randomly, and would cause my pc to halt until I closed the program that was communicating with my cable modem. I suffered this on both ME (read **** os) and 98se. A quick CTRL-ALT-DEL would kill sygate and fix the problem. I also tried a program called 'Winshare' which was a nightmare to setup as it also used DHCP but did not use a floppy method like Sygate. So even though, many critisize M$'s own NAT based Internet connection sharing, I have found it to be excellent once the nightmare of setting it up has been done. So it uses, Netbeui. I can vouch that on my systems, the speed and stability of use is unmatched as far as I've experienced. This online guide is faultless and easy to follow. Anyway, I just thought I would post my opinion on ICS. Good luck.

http://www.annoyances.org/win98/features/ics.html

 

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My Slug.

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Abit BE6 II rev 1.2

Celeron 566@850 mhz

13g ide Hdd

SMC NIC 100mb

REALSHIT 8029 NIC 10mb

Riva tnt2u --> ancient

SBlive

256mb ram

HP 9300 CDRW

Windows ME/Windows 2000

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[pimpin_228 0]

It's simple you got to do it when you setup a network connection when you are on the server set it up for internet sharing.and the other for the same but on connection you have to set it up for lan connection