You friend is about to be ripped off!  In my house I have one computer with
a modem in it, and it accesses the Internet.  I can use any one of the other
four computers to connect to the Internet across my home network through the
PC with the modem.  Since my ISP assigns a new IP address every time I dial
into it, they don't know which PC I'm connecting with, or even if I have
other PCs.

Have your friend go to either techtv.com or techrepublic.com.  They can give
step-by-step instructions on how to set it up.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Thiel" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 6:42 PM
Subject: Internet Sharing


> A friend of mine was told by Adelphia that if he wanted to share his cable
> internet access with other computers in his home, it would cost an extra
> $24.95 per month per computer. I was under the impression that when you
have
> a network with one computer as the gateway connected to the internet, the
> client computers have their own internal IP addresses that can't be seen
by
> the outside world. Only the gateway computer has an external IP address.
> What's to stop him from setting up his own network and sharing the
> connection? How would anyone know? I've heard of people buying secondary
> static IP addresses for additional computers and this makes no sense to me
> either. Doesn't just the gateway have to have the external address?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Dennis Thiel
>
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