I almost can't believe how easy this was and how well it works!
We have a 4 computer home network. All connected via ethernet. 2 of those computers have a modem (still impatiently waiting for cable modem to become available).
1 of the computers connects at near 56K speeds (45.3 or so). The other, on a different phone line, gets 31.2K at best.
We set the faster computer up as the ICS gateway and loaded the client diskette on the other 3, painlessly. All of them can use the internet at the same time!
Here's the coolest part, on the other computer with the modem, I dialed in while connected to the ICS gateway. All my activity seamlessly started flowing over the local connection. I then disconnected and my activity flawlessly continued over the ICS gateway connection! I'm very impressed.
Now, if I could only figure out how to utilize both connections at the same time to get......say a 76K connection throughput I'd be overjoyed!!!!!
Also, even though I changed the TCPIP setting in Network Neighborhood I can still get to the other machines for file and print sharing....pure magic as far as I'm concerned.
We have a 4 computer home network. All connected via ethernet. 2 of those computers have a modem (still impatiently waiting for cable modem to become available).
1 of the computers connects at near 56K speeds (45.3 or so). The other, on a different phone line, gets 31.2K at best.
We set the faster computer up as the ICS gateway and loaded the client diskette on the other 3, painlessly. All of them can use the internet at the same time!
Here's the coolest part, on the other computer with the modem, I dialed in while connected to the ICS gateway. All my activity seamlessly started flowing over the local connection. I then disconnected and my activity flawlessly continued over the ICS gateway connection! I'm very impressed.
Now, if I could only figure out how to utilize both connections at the same time to get......say a 76K connection throughput I'd be overjoyed!!!!!
Also, even though I changed the TCPIP setting in Network Neighborhood I can still get to the other machines for file and print sharing....pure magic as far as I'm concerned.
I've just networked 2 PC's in my house - a P3 667 and a P2 450, and am sharing my ADSL connection via Sygate. It's fantastic - I've found that even when one PC is downloading at full speed (around 60Kbytes/S on my 512K line), I can still ping a perfectly playable 100-150ms in CounterStrike! Of course, this isn't quite so good as the 40-80ms I'm otherwise used to, but anything under 150 or so and you're laughing. I am also able to connect to the same CS server on both machines - with the second machine (client) pinging around 30% higher than the host one - but I use the host one, so 
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