Sharing a DSL Connection
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Don't have DSL so this is second (one and a half) hand. Most of the techo staff in our head office in the US all have DSL and swear by Linksys routers, 4 or 8 port. They plug the ethernet cable from the DSL modem into the back of the Linksys and then have 4 or 8 ports to plug into their computers. I covered this pretty extensively with one of them as our Singapore office will need one soon. From memory he also told me that it will act as a DHCP server and also is able to mimic your network cards MAC address if that is required to fool your ISP into thinking you still only have one machine linked up to the service. This is good for services that state that you can only hook one computer to the Internet. Hope that helps. Michael Martin Pegasystems Pty Ltd Australia martm@pegasystems.com +61 413-004-018
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I've got an ADSL connection, and I use Internet Connection Sharing (comes with win2k) and it works very well. (2b || !2b)
Am I correct in assuming that with this option, the server needs to be up all the time (as opposed to the router option)? I tried to get IP sharing to work a very long time ago and had some problems. Is this any easier? Cheers, Tom "Ya got lucky, ya lucky prick" - Keith McCready