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Cable Modems and Two Computers
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28/12/1999 17:48:15
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Visual FoxPro
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>>>>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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>>>Be careful with this. Some cable providers periodically check for things like Proxy Servers and if found on your line will disconnect your service.
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>>I am confused... how can a cable company know if you have a proxy set up... The would idea of a proxy is that it looks like one machine to the internet.
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>I dunno, but I've heard of it happening. I know that my license agreement with AT&T @Home prohibits this.

Craig,
PMFJI, but I use Comcast@home and have three machines sharing the cable modem using Wingate. In fact, I am using Wingate 4.0 beta 2 which supports Network Address Translation (NAT) which seems to work better than the client approach they use in Wingate 3.x. I am also using BlackICE Defender as a firewall on the box connected to the cable modem, so if they were checking for anything on my system, they would see nothing.....
Barry Fox
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