Sharing a Dial-up Connection

[bighop80]

I live in an apartment in which dial up is our only option for ISP. My roommate is running windows 98 and I am running 2000. How do I share a dial up connection between the two computers so we can both be on the internet at the same time?

[Confused]

ICS if the WIN98 box is WIN98 SE and not WIN98 FE. Put a NIC in each PC and connect them with a crossover cable.
Chas

[Kov-Ice]

I think there's a tutorial on that at www.homenethelp.com Just realize that the connection is going to be awfully slow.

[glc]

2000 does ICS better than 98, install the modem in the 2000 box and share it, set up dialup networking and there will be a Sharing tab in your connection's properties. You need a nic in each machine and either a crossover cable or 2 straight cables and a hub. Note that if you use an ISP that requires its own software to log in (such as AOL), it gets tricky, if at all possible.

98SE is only required if it's the ICS *host* - any version of Windows from 95 on can be a client. Just set the client's TCP/IP properties to obtain everything automatically and use DHCP. The host machine must be on to allow the client to access the Internet.

Another option is one of these modems:

http://www.actiontec.com/products/mo..._overview.html

This will allow your 2 machines to operate independently and is a better idea because it also has a firewall.