If your machines have Windows 98 Second Edition or newer, you can use
Microsoft's ICS - Internet Connection Sharing, a communication utility
available with the OS.  You need to connect the 2 computers with a NIC -
network interface card and a crossover Category 5 cable (or a hub and 2
direct Cat 5 cables).  If you don't want to run new cabling and you have
standard telephone jacks in your rooms, you can use home phone network
interface cards and standard phone cords w/ RJ-11 jacks instead - these are
a little more expensive, but perhaps more convenient.

Set up ICS on the computer with the modem connection to the Internet first
and set it as the ICS host, with local IP address 192.168.0.1 and subnet
mask 255.255.255.0.  Then set up the second computer with ICS identifying
the host and letting DHCP assign it's local IP address.  I believe you will
need to manually connect to the Internet with the host before the second
machine can access.  If you want the host to dial when the second machine
requests access, you can use a proxy server as described in a previous
message.  An other option is the Anypoint software that comes with Intel's
home phone network interface cards.  It includes a firewall (Black Ice
Defender), content filtering and the ability to dial and hang up from a
remote.  If you use AOL, however, only the host can access full AOL.  The
remote can access AOL, but must use another browser (IE, Netscape, etc.) for
Internet access.

Good luck,
Rand Blunck
Why Not Try Computing
Glendale, AZ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Emie DelRosario" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 6:43 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Networking


> Hello list,
>
> As a real newbie to this home networking thingy and knows no crap about
what
> I'm gonna do.... here's the question, is it possible to network 2
computers
> at home with one using a modem through dial up networking to connect to
the
> Internet?  If it is... (I hope....crossing fingers and toes!)  can any of
> the experts @ PCBUILD give me some ideas or a crash lesson on how to do
it?
> Is there a place I can go to get some ideas or help?  I appreciate the
help,
> guys.  TIA!
>
> Emie
>
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