Share Internet Connection off laptop dialup?

[Ron Hardin]

I have some deep-discount Dell laptops talking on a router okay,
but have no cable or DSL connection. So I plug a phone line into
one or another of the laptops to dial up.

Can I set others to use that connection? I have the feeling that
they think they ought to go to the router for a cable connection,
rather than back down the LAN to whatever laptop has the dialup
dialed up.

The idea is to get a momentary internet connection for laptop B
without interrupting a download on laptop A to do it, which comes up
a lot on the second tuesday of the month.

Not sure what enables this or prevents it.

 

[Ron Hardin]

Surely if you have a Router you don't need to go to the ICS at all you can
create a LAN and other network on your connection and share files/folders.
Here is how:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/setup/wired.mspx
Router and Switch Design
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/guidance/networksecurity/secmod40.mspx
HTH.
Let us know.
Regards,
nass

No, the only modems I have are internal to the laptops that I have on a LAN.

The idea is, when one of the laptops is dialed up to the internet, that the
others can use its dialed up connection at the same time. (Which laptop is
plugged into the telephone system and dialed up will vary depending on where
the cord goes that day, but that's a secondary problem.)

The question is, how to achieve this. When one laptop, A, is doing a long
download, I want to be able to get access to the internet on laptop B without
unplugging laptop A to do it.

The router that they're all on, talking to each other, serves only as a switch,
there being no modem attached to it.