Whats the best way of Internet Sharing at home?

[Akaz1976]

I got @home cable service. and i have 2 computers running win98se.

what would be the easiest way to have internet sharing between those computers? i just want to make sure that i have no problems with my internet game play due to that internet sharing (no slow down or conneting problems)

thanx

Akaz

****EDIT**** what hardware/software would i need?

 

[Supergax]

Do you know how many IP addresses you receive? If more than one, I'd say get yourself a hub and your in business. Otherwise, you may want to look at a router, both Netgear and Linksys have some that run around $150. I'm personally not a fan of internet connection sharing, so I would save that as a last resort.

 

[Akaz1976]

i dont think i get more than one IP address. @home charges $15/month more for additional IP address.

 

[twren]

I'd check into that pricing At&t@home in chicago only charge $5 a month more for an ip

 

[BuckMaster]

If you think you might want to add more computers in the future I would highly recommend buying a Router. 1 time fee for the router and you wont ever have to worry about IP's ever again!

Software: Software

Hardware Highly Recommanded:Netgear Router

 

[Polaris13]

Get an old PC, install a stripped down version of linux and add these three lines to your /etc/rc.local file

echo "1" ? /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
/sbin/ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s your.network.xx.xx/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0
/sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY

 

[Wik]

Well if the cheapest thing for you to do is to put in a second NIC in one computer, a crossover cable between the 2 computers and use ICS built into Windows. This works fine, I use it sometimes myself. Some of my friends use it also with no complaints. Only drawback is that the machine with 2 NICs has to be on to use the net for both computers.

 

[themadmonk]

Get a phoneline network, no extra work needed and the infrastructure already runs through your walls.

 

[Lightbulb]

Use Peer to Peer connection and make one pc as server one as client if u want to try Wingate or other softwares. OR use Internet Connection Sharing OR If you want to set up an advance network use Linksys/Maxgate/Netopia routers it will let u connect to more than 4 pcs and up to 253 pcs in the future. Network Addresses Translation firewall method protected from internet jerks.