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[Kev Sharratt]

Hi, I was wondering if you could give me a little advice

I have an old machine running windows 98SE that was connected to the internet via an ethernet card onto UK NTL cable broadband. I then purchased a new machine running windows XP Home and connected the new machine to the same internet service via a onboard the motherboard ethernet connection.

I fitted a new hard drive to the old machine and re-installed windows 98SE from my CD Rom so I lost all the patches & upgrades were installed on that machine and I now keep getting freezes on programs that used to run OK.

What I want do do is connect the win98SE machine to the XP machine so that it has access to the internet and I can download the upgrades (and other things I'm missing). I have a PCI Ethernet Card and a long cable with the connectors at each end. I'm not planning on making a perminant connection just to connect them together when I wish to go online on the old machine.

Am I OK to install the ethernet card in the new PC (Can you have 2 ethernet connections on 1 PC, the onboard & PCI) and connect them together and how do I do the software setup side of things.
Your advice would be appreciated as I have never done this before


thanks

Kev





:)

[Sterling_Aug]

http://www.sysopt.com/articles/icsproxy/index.html

Read the above article and learn a little about Internet Connection Sharing.

I would then try using a proxy program which is much easier to set up the ICS in Windows.

Download the best proxy program here:

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/proxy.htm

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Check the ICS guides over at www.practicallynetworked.com too ;)

--Jakk:t

[DesertPony]

My Dad and I had our computers connected like the way you mentioned. The only difference is that his computer didn't have onboard LAN, so we had to have two PCI cards. Everything should work, just make sure you read up on what you are doing :t

[Direct1]

All you need is a hub or router (router is better because it includes a built-in firewall and masks your IP address on the net). Run the ethernet cable from the modem to the hub/router and then ethernet cables to each PC's nic. They both will have their own Internet access then without having to share through another PC.