John,

I have RCN cable modem service.  AFAIK they all work the same way.  Your friend
would need to set up the MAC as a proxy server, then set up a functioning LAN
between the two computers (peer-to-peer network).  I have no experience with
MAC's, but I have two Windows 98 machines and currently share the connection
with my wife's PC.

There are other options.  If your friend calls @Home, they may be able to
provide a second IP address for a small fee.  You would also need a second
cable modem for his wife's PC.  Then she could be set up as a second full
stand-alone connection.  All that would have to be done is a cable line would
have to be run to her PC and a NIC installed.

At 11:03 AM 6/14/99 -0500, you wrote:
>A friend of mine has a cable internet hookup with @Home to his
>Macintosh.  His wife has a PC and I was wondering if the @Home cable is
>just a regular Tcp/Ip cable that would allow me to hook his wife's PC up
>
>to internet by using a regular Internet card and adding the Tcp/Ip
>software from Windows?
>--
>John H. Miller
>Miller Technical Services
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