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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