>>>What are some suggestions for hooking up two computers to the internet through one cable modem? The computers can be networked Peer-to-Peer or whatever is best.
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>>>One is Win95 and the Other is WinNT Workstation 4.0.
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>>Upgrade the Win95 box to Win98SE, or the NT box to Win2K, and then use ICS (InterNet COnnection Sharing) to make the connection visible. Whichever machine hosts ICS will become a DHCP server for the LAN as well.
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>>I've used both methods to share a cable modem connection, and given that some of the cable modem software, particularly the @Home software, messes with the registry and tries to turn an NT Server into an NT workstation, ICS is better than the approach of installing Proxy Server on a NT Server. ICS is not as secure, but it's far easier to setup and maintain.
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>I could be off here, (I am talking a little over my head), but I think that the software that the cable modem runs has to support NAT for ICS to work. Some cable modems do, some don't. The Motorola CyberSurfer Wave that Time Warner issues in many cities does NOT support Network Address Translation, and so can't be shared like this.
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>But software like WinGate and SyGate (sp?) can do the sharing for you.

I think that ICS handles it the same way as WinGate/SyGate, but I haven't delved in detail with it. So far, I'm 4 for 4 with getting cable modems up via ICS, in at least two of those situations, we couldn't use Proxy Server 2.0 to do the same thing, with @Home and TCI provided systems. It may be that you can't put the CyberSurfer into a hub and have it addressed as a router by >1 IP address, which is the case with the @Home systems.