I spent months trying to get ICS to work with direcpc 3.0. I even tried a trial period downloads of winproxy and winroute, both seemed to work OK. But that would be more software I would have to maintain.
End result direcpc with ICS will not work, even though they advertise that it does. I even had support from Hughes corporate that couldn't get it to work. Over 20 calls in 30 days.
I had to upgrade to Win2Kpro, I complained and they gave me several months of service free to offset the cost. Then they stopped offering local ISP for the return side where I'm at. I had to go with XO (unlimited nationwide $86 for 6 months)
I got more free months of service for that.
I haven't paid for over 7 months.
The two-way arrives here today.