On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:23:10 -0700, Jim <eternal_dna@hotmail.com>
belched the alphabet and kept on going with:

>Michael Cash wrote:
>> 
>> Now...if I can just find a place to PUT the thing and figure out how
>> to network it with the old one (the wife and kids inherit it) and get
>> them to both share a single ADSL connection, all my problems will be
>> solved.
>> 
>
>This post is a bit late but here's the cheapest way to do what you want:

Three days too late. I did all this last Sunday.

>
>Buy a 4-port hub (or whatever's on sale) and some ethernet cables.  I think
>the latest hubs are all auto-crossover so you won't need a crossover
>ethernet cable.  If it's not auto-crossover, you'll need one crossover cable
>connect your computer to the hub.

Yep. Auto-crossover.

>
>Buy another ethernet card.

Nope. I had already installed one in the old one when I went to a
cable connection. The new one's motherboard came already set up for
it.

>
>Install ethernet card.  On the ethernet card that you use to connect to
>the internet, click on the tab somewhere that says "share this connection"
>(or something similar).
>
>Windows will tell you that it's setting your other ethernet card to some
>wild IP address (probably 192.168.0.1).  If this is the same address that
>your original ethernet card is set to route to (from dos prompt type
>"route print" and see what the last line "default gateway" is set to),
>you will need to change the 192.168.0.1 to something else, like 192.168.1.1.

The router set up procedure took me through some such rigamarole.

>
>Then you just plug the hub to to the second ethernet cards, and the wife
>and kids' computers to the hub.  Set their computers to use DHCP and you're
>done.

Except for enabling file-sharing so I can more easily port my porn and
music over to the new computer. (I figured that one out already too,
thanks).

>
>Oh, do a quick look on support.microsoft.com and see the registry setting
>you need to add... do a search for "IP routing".  You need to have IP routing
>set for this to all work.

I'm supposed to look on Microsoft's website in the hopes of finding
something both useful and comprehensible? Does not compute.

>
>Hope this helps.

Late, but appreciated all the same.