Advice

[Isabel]

I currently have a Network connection with a Category 5
cable. Windows 98SE is the Server and XP is the Client.
I use to have a system installed in the Server allowing
both computers to connect with AOL simultaneously. I
learned it was very slow and difficult reinstalling.
Currently I have each computer connecting to AOL using
the same account number but on separate telephone lines,
(2).
I am open to suggestions to allow both computers to
connect to AOL using the same telephone line and not with
Broadband?
Thank you.

Isabel

 

[Chuck]

I currently have a Network connection with a Category 5
cable. Windows 98SE is the Server and XP is the Client.
I use to have a system installed in the Server allowing
both computers to connect with AOL simultaneously. I
learned it was very slow and difficult reinstalling.
Currently I have each computer connecting to AOL using
the same account number but on separate telephone lines,
(2).
I am open to suggestions to allow both computers to
connect to AOL using the same telephone line and not with
Broadband?
Thank you.

Isabel

Isabel,

Your best bet IMHO would be to enable Internet Connection Sharing on the client,
and setup the server to connect thru ICS on the client.

ICS is only available on Windows XP, but you could use a proxy server, such as
Analogx Proxy (free) from
<http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/proxy.htm>, if you want to
share the connection from the Win98 server.

Proxy servers are harder to use, and aren't as versatile as ICS. I'd bet too
that the WinXP client has more processing power than the Win98 "server". YMMV.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[Eric Cross]

I'm sorry Isabel but AOL doesn't allow you to share a connection by ICS.

See the following Microsoft Knowledge Base Article.

Internet Connection Sharing Clients Cannot Connect If Host Is Using an AOL
Dial-Up Connection
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321644

Using Analog X Proxy should work. ICS isn't only available in XP, Chuck. It
is also available in Windows 98 SE.

________________
Eric