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Post #8 by ghporter
Source ForumPC and Mac networked and sharing a 'net connection..a better solution?! — #8
CategoryNetworking
Post DateTue, 1 Oct 2002 - 11:51
Original URLhttps://web.archive.org/web/20050522191821/https://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=125874
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Originally posted by pixelghetto:
That sounds like it would work a treat, if I had a decent ISP. Which I don't, I use [shame] AOL [/shame], if there anyway to make this work with that?! Or is it a case of getting a new isp. Saying that Aol is my third and most reliabe isp I have had. So, any ideas?
All of us have some mark with which we must live, and you're not at all alone bearing your particular mark. You have my sympathy.

Now, if you're asking whether or not Windows XP's Internet Connection Sharing feature will work with AOL, I'm not sure, but probably. However, ICS is not the best way to share a connection.

Linksys markets a line of gateway routers, the BEFSR41, for example, that provide full-duplex sharing of the broadband connection. A recent firmware upgrade for that series is designed to make AOL-DSL work smoothly. These boxes are not too expensive; I've seen them for as little as about $80US, though I don't know what price they go for in the UK.

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