Cable Internet

There is a way.

If you are using Windows 2000. there is a facility called internet Connection sharing. If you right click on the dial up networking icon on the first PC, you can select it there. Follow the help options to show you the rest of the setup. Pretty simple. Look for article "Q237254 - How to Enable Internet Connection Sharing on a Network Connection" on the microsoft knowledge base home page. http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/c.asp

I know you can do the same thing with 2 Win98 PC. Has the same facility.

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ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) is the cheapest way to do this. Essentially the PC with the Internet connection onboard acts as a "dumb proxy". The other PC requires a small client. Bring up Start | Help and look for Internet Connection Sharing.
If you have a couple of dollars, consider investing in a Cable/DSL Router. They're great, and you do not need to have both computers running just to share the connection to the "2nd" PC. You can then expand your home network to 254 workstations! Asante, D-Link, 3Com, LinSYS, etc. all make good little boxes, some even have print servers, and all act to some extent like a firewall. Oh, and you won't need to have any extra IP addresses or anything like that. Your ISP won't really know you have this.

the cheapest easiest way to go. ! purchase Crossover cable similar in appearance to stanard CAT 5 wire with RJ45's on either end and purchase NIC card. Install NIC in computer to act as server this computer will have two NIC installed run crossover cable to second computer. Plug into NIC card. set protocols the same for both computer. You will have one IP address and even if you have DHCP (Leased IP) both computers will operate. This system will work well, the only caution is you are sharing bandwidths and for large large bandwidth apps you will notice slower speeds ie gaming

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