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Software => Internet browsers => Topic started by: sureshkumar on June 25, 2004, 07:08:53 PM
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How to Connecting 2 home computers to share a single internet connection
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That depends.
You can use a router and both have indepent Internet connections and yet still make use of only one line.
Or you can use a Hub and make one of your computers the host and connect the client to the host.
What are you using?
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The router option is best as it's much less trouble to set up and maintain. Decent hardware routers aren't that expensive any more - Netgear for example have an excellent range (but so do lots of other manufacturers).
It's also possible to share an internet connection through Windows ICS (internet connection sharing) without the use of router or hub - but then the host computer must be on for the second computer to use it, and it can be a major pain to set up, and maintain if something goes wrong. If you can afford the expense, a hardware router is the way to go.
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Im using xp and ICS via network cable to my other laptop. But sometimes i cant connect IE6 from the host even when i can connect Messenger. I think it is a problem or setting with IE. Any thoughts.
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check your firewall also there is this>http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/dccmain.htm
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Im using xp and ICS via network cable to my other laptop. But sometimes i cant connect IE6 from the host even when i can connect Messenger. I think it is a problem or setting with IE. Any thoughts.
Reinstall Internet Explorer or use a browser such as Mozilla Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/)
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hey,
how to use internet connection sharing? i want to connect my two laptops to internet through one line.
my OS in XP and i have IE installed on both of them.
thanx