configuring sharing on multiple dial-up accounts

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We don't have DSL, or cable in our area. I telecommute and my family uses
the computer in the evening so we go over on "accepted use" hours with our
ISP. To appease them, we now have two dial-up accounts. I have them both
entered in my Network Connections along with a VPN account for work and my
LAN settings. When we dial in on either ISP account, we want to have the
connection shared. If I mark "share this computer" on the Advanced tab for
one connection, it takes sharing off of the other. Is there a way to
configure both for sharing? Only one will ever be connected at any one time
and I don't want to have to go in and redo the settings when I log off my
work account and dial-in on our home use account.
 
We don't have DSL, or cable in our area. I telecommute and my family uses
the computer in the evening so we go over on "accepted use" hours with our
ISP. To appease them, we now have two dial-up accounts. I have them both
entered in my Network Connections along with a VPN account for work and my
LAN settings. When we dial in on either ISP account, we want to have the
connection shared. If I mark "share this computer" on the Advanced tab for
one connection, it takes sharing off of the other. Is there a way to
configure both for sharing? Only one will ever be connected at any one time
and I don't want to have to go in and redo the settings when I log off my
work account and dial-in on our home use account.
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I'm sorry, but XP's Internet Connection Sharing can only be enabled on
one connection at a time.
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Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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Steve Winograd said:
I'm sorry, but XP's Internet Connection Sharing can only be enabled on
one connection at a time.
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
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Thank you. At least I can stop searching for an answer for that question!
I would welcome any suggestions any one may have for an alternate way to work
around this problem. Obviously we can go into the network settings each
time we switch from one dial up account to the other and switch the sharing
but if I'm missing some obvious alternate method, I'm sure interested in
knowing.
 
There is no workaround, aside from finding an ISP that won't do this to you.
Sorry.
 
Hi

There is "Quasi" solution to this.

You can get an External DialUp Modem and a Router that has a serial port (or
something similar).

Doing so you can configure shared Network regardless of the DialUp account.

Make sure that your ISP supports External Modem and that the Router is VPN
through for dialup.

Option 2 on this page described the general idea:
http://www.ezlan.net/DialUp.html

Jack (MVP-Networking)
 
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