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by webwench

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My daugter and I share an office. Her system is running Win/ME and my is running Win/98. We have a the two machines networked to share data and printers. I know there is a way we can share the ISP connection so we can both be online at the same time. We use a dialup connection...no broadband. I've seen the instructions in a techmail (I think) but I can't find them! Anybody out there know how to do this?

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by dmiles

Setting up ICS with WinME as the host and Win 98 as client
Setup:
Each machine will need a NIC card installed
One Cat 5 crossover cable
Click Start->Programs-> Accessories,select Communications,then click on Home Networking Wizard
The Home Networking Wizard starts
Follow the onscreen instructions
Reference the following sites
www.zdnet.com/
www.annoyances.org/win98/features/ics.html
www.internet-sharing.com
www.windows-help.net/techfiles/ics.html
This so that you can print out
Alsoyou can use HELP from the Start Button and get info on ICS

by webwench

Sorry it took me so long to get back here. Thank you for your help. TheChas answer helped too but there is no way to split the points so I guess the first answer that helped should get them. Thanks again.

by thechas

Here are the titles of the TechRepublic Articles on ICS.

I have found that you need to search the TR site with only lower case letters to find articles.

internet connection sharing
sharing an internet connection at home
the innards of internet connection sharing

If you do set up ICS, remember it is only installed and enabled on the host machine.

Also, remember that if multiple users are on-line, the effective speed will be reduced to 1/n (number of users)

by webwench

Thanks for your help. I knew I had seen the articles here before. Sorry to be so long in responding.

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