Ok, right now I have one computer hooked directly to my cable modem. I would really like other computers to be able to access my brodband connection. I was wondering, considering my Cable connection is only runnning at a max of 3MB. If I were to set up a server to share the internet, if I used 10MB NIC's, would I lose any speed? Any help would be appreciated, and assume for right now I cannot buy 10/100 NIC's. I just want to fix this.

10MB NIC's would work just fine, although they would be slower than 10/100 NIC cards. But as far as Internet access you would not notice any difference in using the slower one. Most older broadband modems only support 10MB on their Ethernet interface anyway. That is why a router (cost lot less than a system, and not much more than two NIC's) is usually the best way to go. It isolates the slow 10MB link from the modem, so the rest of the network can run at 100MB all the time. You can do the same with a system and ICS, but then you have a whole system to maintain, disk drive, monitor, keyboard, mouse, plus it needs two NIC's. And it makes a poor performance Internet connection work station because ICS and its other clients have priority.

Ok, great. Well, for now since I already have a spare system lying around, I will go with ICS. I need some help though. I have a computer with Windows 98SE. I cannot get my Cable modem to work with it. I set up the NIC and plug in the modem to it. I sewt up my LAN settings to automatically detect, but when I go into IE, it still cannot connect to the internet. I have comcast cable internet and a Surfboard cable modem if that helps. I could really use some help on this. I just want to fix this.

Call Comcast and tell them you bought a new network card. They will update your account info to contain the new network card's mac address.