Jerry,

I also have Charter Pipeline in Minnesota and I am using a Linksys 4-port
router, which has been flawless in the 3-1/2 years on the system. For the
first few weeks, I tried Wingate and a couple other proxy connection sharing
programs and I've been kicking myself ever since that I didn't try the
router right from the start.

My cable modem is an older Motorola Surfboard SB2100 which plugs into the
uplink port of my router and I have two PCs, one Linksys Wireless Access
Point and one Cisco ATA 186 analog phone adapter plugged into the four
ports.

Using a router/switch like the Linksys, it has a built-in hardware firewall
so that the modem thinks that is the only PC connected to the system. It
automatically assigns DCHP addresses to the network computers so that they
can recognize each other for sharing files and printers without a second NIC
card.

I have used this with Win98SE, Win2K, WinXP and a combination of them all,
so I would highly recommend a multi-port router for what you are trying to
do. Forget the hub, as that will work but only one machine can access the
net at a time and network sharing is difficult at best.

Good luck,

Larry A. Kaduce

-----Original Message-----
From: Dean Kiley

Jerry,

At the moment I run a cable connection through charter pipeline. They
supplied me with a Motorola Surfboard SB4100 that has both and Ethernet and
USB port. Before I attempted to network the two machines (one running XP
Home, the other running WME) they worked fine utilizing the Ethernet for the
XP machine which already had a nic card installed, and the other worked well
using the USB port. The only catch was that I had to go to the Motorola web
site and download the usb drivers for the WME machine. Once that was done it
was a breeze.

Now comes the frustrating part. Networking! I purchased a Belkin 4 port
Gateway Router (very reasonably priced), and a nic card for the WME machine.
Both machines now are recognizing each other, and both have access to the
net (static IP) however, getting access to shared files and peripherals is
eluding me. I'm sure it is something simple and I'm trying too hard, but
given time I'm sure I will figure it out.

Try these sites for more info:
www.wown.com
www.homenethelp.com

The latter of the two seem to be more helpful and easy to understand. My two
cents..

Good luck....

Dean Kiley

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  Hi Folks,

  As I don't have any experience with cable modems, how can a person best
  "network" 2 PC's, one of which has a cable modem connection to the
internet
  and the other is basically a stand alone PC right now. The main
requirement
  is to have both machines with internet access from the single cable modem
  connection?

  What additional kit would be required? Hub? Cables?

  Any help appreciated?

  Regards,
  Jerry O'Connell.

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