K6-III and ICS, Win98SE........

[Xavier]

Guyz,

just pulled my PC apart and built meself a nice lil athlon

, I was wonderin if any of u guys have used Internet Connection Sharing (win98SE) - I now have 90% of a second machine (AMD K6-III w/256Mb and I am thinking of putting it 2gether and networkin it to my athlon (cablemodem) and sharing the 'net across both... the thing is :
a) is ICS on the second edition updates CD? (I have 98 already, don't want 2 shell out for another copy of the same OS...
or,
b) Is there anything else as an alternative (free is better, free is GOOD)
c) Is it worth the effort? I mean does the second machine get 10% of the bandwidth or does it share the connection properly...

???

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[Guest]

Try www.tucows.com

There are a number of shareware/freeware firwall & Internet sharing apps mirrored there for download.

 

[Xavier]

thanks speccy but the only freeware title there I have heard nasty things about (it's a beta :¬|
Anyhow, I think I am really asking if anyone has used ICS, if it's worth it and on the SE updates CD i'll just grab that, if it's useless I might just keep the connection on the one PC.


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[old.Brit]

Win98SE Connection sharing is actually quite good. I use a Celeron (O/C'd to 500Mhz) and 128MB RAM running through a 100MB hub to two machines; mine and my flatmate's.

The connection is provided by a 56k dialup - thankfully being replaced by 128kb line this week. Setting it up is easy; it creates its own disk which 'client' machines then run; it sets up your TCP/IP or IPX settings for you.

All in all, a very good system. You could of course use something like ComSocks, but it is my experience that they have problems with mail/http sharing.

--Brit--

 

[Xavier]

anyone else?

 

[old.ViR]

ICS is only available on the win98SE full retail & u/g CD's - not in the updates/service packs.

However, depending on whether you've got your ethernet stuff worked out yet, check out this review:
http://www.extremehw.com/reviews/networking/dfe910/index.html

10/100 networking kit + comes with decent ICS software. Don't know if this helps

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[Xavier]

not really, that kit is for more than 2 machines, I can get away with a crossover cable, no need for a hub.

thx anyhow...