I would like to share one adsl connection over three computers. One computer (the 'server') is running windows 2000 prof and has the adsl modem (usb) and two network cards. One of them is connected to another computer through coax (the other computer is running windows 98), and i have shared the internet connection in windows 2000 between those two computers, so it is now possible for both computers to use it at the same time, and this works perfectly. The problem is that the third computer only has a utp-network card in it, so I added a second network card in the server with only a utp connection and linked the two computers with a utp-cable. The third computer is running windows XP home edition. Now the server has two LAN’s defined, one of them is sharing the internet connection and the other is simply for file sharing. Now I would like to be able to use the internet connection on both computers, if possible without using a hub or replacing the coax with a utp. I also can’t replace the utp with coax since the third computer is a laptop in witch i can’t place an extra Ethernet cartridge. Thanks in advance...

Damn! what a freaking mess, it is possible to do what you would like but its a pain in the ass. What i would suggest is you put down the dough on some real nic cards and a hub. plug everything into the hub, do a little reconfig of you server settings and you done and it will look a s---load better too.

yeah.. id have to agree that that is a huge mess.. you could try taking the second internet card (utf) from your 2000 machine and putting it in your win 98 machine and sharing the connection once again.. but make sure you have windows 98 second edition.. you may be able to access the internet, but then you will have a sharing issue so your setup would be as follows: adsl (usb)-> win2000.. win2000->98 machine->xp machine but i suggest getting the hub and doing a reconfig

Buy 4 NIC RJ45 or UTP same stuff and buy a hub. Install 2 NIC's in the Win2000 Pro set the network IP's and all the other mumbo-jumbo this would be the easiest.

I think we will all agree now that a hub would be the easiest option. That option was suggested to me when i bought the second network card but than of course i went for the cheaper option. I must have scottish forefathers or something. Anyway, i set myself to the task of trying to complete this queste without bying a hub, this because i am a student who is poor and who has got to much time on his hands anyway... I installed windows XP on the server, and after some trouble with finding the correct drivers for most of the hardware in my machine i finally managed to get a system wich booted (a whole achievement at the time) and i than started to work on the network. That was quite a suprise. All i had to do was run a wizard on all three of the computers, and for the 98 machine a disk was made wich had the same wizard on it, all of the sudden the system worked (proof of this being that i am typing this message on the second xp-computer:). No difficult configuring required, i didn't even have to know what an IP-adress was. Not that i am therefore telling everybody to go out and buy windows xp since i did use the proffesional edition, and i doubt the same trick would work with the home edition (but you did not get that from me) and there are disadvantages as well, just the network configuring is a nice feature. If the guys at microsoft keep this up and add one nice thing with every next update, in some years an almost perfect OS could come to being :)). But thanks for the help of all you. Bying a hub was the thing i was going to do when this xp thing did not work, and i very much appreciate the help of everyone.

Just a remark aboutthat last statement. The chances of MS producing ANYTHING perfect is next to nil. I know this because my cousin used to be a programmer for MS and he told me that they PURPOSLY put bugs in them to make people call the tech support lines.

Of course, you could have just moved all the problem cards to the XP box and bridged them - highlight both network connections and select 'bridge' ........ You finish up with one subnet with everything on it. Works a treat for the wireless extension to my network at home :-)