I purchased a Speedstream 4 port router at Circuit City for
$29.95 after rebate.  Plugged it into my cable modem with a
short cat5 wire, plugged in 4 win98se 266 pcs with built in
nic connections (or add $5 - $10 nic card per pc) and all 4
are surfing AOL simultaneously.  AOL version 8 had trouble
finding the cable connection option, had to execute winipcfg
from the 'run' line, plus I had to place a call to
Speedstreams free help line, but still got it all up within
an hour.

Mel Emurian wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a Speedstream DSL modem/router with two outputs - a USB and an ethernet. My computer is hooked up with the USB and my daughter's computer with the ethernet. When we surf the internet separately everything works fine. But if we try to surf at the same time, only one of us can actually get online. It all depends who clicks to get on first.
>
> Is there a way to get this setup to work so that both of us can access the internet at the same time? My computer has both Win98SE and XP Pro on two separate hard drives. My daughter's has Win98SE.
>
> Thanks in advance for assisting me.
>
> Mel Emurian
>
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