Re: Problem sharing an adsl connection between 2 user accounts

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From: Kenny (hotmail_at_coldmail.com)
Date: 04/29/04


Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:46:03 +0300

Your description is confusing.... you cannot have 2 people browsing at the
same time....
because when you log on to one account the other cannot reach his desktop.

You want to say that you do not want the downloads to stop while switching
users.
That is the correct description of your problem.

Now that it is clear lets see what some people will answer

"John Murray" <onslow@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:v3u1901hdthjr98jtdtmocgkbb40up8rc1@4ax.com...
> G'day,
> I hope someone can help me. I'm running winxp with all the
> latest updates from microsoft. I've tried several times to share my
> adsl connection on my desktop with my sons desktop on the same machine
> and have both desktops downloading/browsing at the same time. The
> trouble is that I am unable to do this. I'm using a Thompson alcatel
> speedtouch 530 as the modem and the microsoft internet connection
> firewall. If I start a file download on my desktop, switch users to my
> sons desktop and try to browse the net, the status bar says that the
> web site is found but no actual download of the site occurs. The pages
> just hang. The same with mail and my sons p2p program. Switching back
> to my desktop shows that my downloads are uninterrupted. Any
> suggestions as to what I may have missed?
>
> Cheers
>
> John Murray



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