Re: Broadband

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On Tue, 17 May 2005 14:07:23 +0100,
"annonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <annonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>I have two PCs which I want to enable to receive Broadband independently of
>each other without a Radio.
>
>I have had different suggestions, which for one reason or another are
>unsuitable. e.g. lack of Ethernet ports, so a router system is out.
>
>Now I had the following suggestion:-
>
>"If you are running Windows 98SE, Windows 2000 or XP, install a network card
>in the machine with the broadband modem, enable Internet Connection Sharing
>(ICS) for the broadband modem, install a network card in the computers you
>want to share with and lastly set each computer to obtain its IP
>configuration via dynamic allocation (DHCP)."
>
>Will someone who has better knowledge of these matters than I advise me
>whether this suggestion will give me the results I want as above. My OS is
>Win.XPPro (SP2).
>Thank you.
>

If you want each machine to access the net independently of each
other, then you have no choice but to use a router. Sorry.

.

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