How can I share a dial up connection between two computers without buying a dial up router? Is it possible?

Question

Both computers have windows xp sp2.

Answer 1

If both machines have Ethernet cards, you can connect them together with a crossover Ethernet patch cord. They'll form a two machine peer-to-peer network. On the machine with the modem, and using an account with administrator privileges, bring up the properties for the dial up connection and enable internet connection sharing. ICS will allow you to access the internet from either machine.

If you have any trouble, just look up Internet Connection Sharing in Windows Help.

Good luck.

Answer 2

Like 1 person suggested if both computers had Ethernet cards you could use a crossover cable and using ICS to share your connection. However, this is not practical because dial-up is already slow as it is and when you have to divide the connection speed to whatever it is that you usually connect at with dial up you're going to divide that connection between the two computers. Both computers are going to be slower than ever before and you'll just be sitting there waiting forever for it to do anything. Because of this, I wouldn't recommend this.

Some ISP's are already trying to encourage their customers to switch over to broadband by increasing the price on dial-up (since the technology is about to become obsolete & therefore getting expensive to operate) and lowering the price on high-speed Internet as low as $22-24 [depending on where you live] a month for the cheapiest version of high-speed. Just go ahead and make the transition over to broadband. A lot of ISP's will throw in a free high-speed modem.

Once you do that then you can really network that will give you a reasonable amount of speed.

Answer 3

I don't have Win XP, and have not used dial up networking for years, however I remember that it was possible in some of the older Windows (I think Win 98 SE and Win ME) to do this. There also used to be 3'rd party software to do this.

Answer 4

Why bother with dialup when Dsl / cable is cheaper and if you can get att yahoo dsl then they will sell you a wireless 4 port router for 30 bucks with your service. Not to mention dsl will cost you about 14.95 a month and be 50x faster than dialup.

Answer 5

it not really possible unless your computer has something that is kind of a router but i don't think that many computer. just buy a router, you could buy on that has two to three router for about $20 maybe less.

Answer 6

the 2 computers must be connected someway, either by a hub, or wireless usb adapter, and internet connection sharing enabled on the host computer.
www.practicallynetworked.com

Answer 7

try
01 ethernet card
02 lan caed

the lan card usually equipped with computer