Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!f233.ai037.freebit.ne.JP!not-for-mail From: Michael Cash Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Video card advice? Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 03:25:23 +0900 Lines: 71 Message-ID: <879nkv8h6f9k9jof7in0332qktg82c5602@4ax.com> References: <3f40b108$1_6@news.uncensored-news.com> <3F4B977E.8070204@hotmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: f233.ai037.freebit.ne.jp (220.215.37.233) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1061922325 9195869 220.215.37.233 (16 [51151]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:4833 On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:23:10 -0700, Jim 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.