Nothing.. You can get a router/hub and share all you want but you'll be
sharing the one IP address, I would think they would charge for separate IPs
for each computer but sharing shouldn't be a problem.

Dave Jones
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Thiel" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 5:42 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] 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?
>

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