How do i use one internet connection for two computers? Someone told me i could network via phone ca

Hi There,

Any simple instructions would be appreciated if you are able to help! I have two computers - one running win XP (with dial up modem) and another running win98. I am wanting to connect the win98 computer to my winXP so they can share the internet connection.

Is this possible? Someone told me that i should be able to do via a phone cable? They both have the networking wizard on the computers...

Sorry to sound so vague but although i feel i am computer literate i do get a little lost when people abbreviate everything! Final question - is a NIC referring to the network card??

Cheers and thanx for any help in advance :-)

How do i use one internet connection for two computers? Someone told me i could network via phone cable?free spyware remobal

Yes, they both can share. However, there is a slight problem. The dial-up will be so slow that it wouldn't be worth sharing. If you are still bent on doing it, here is how it works.

Both computers need to have a Local Area Network (LAN) port. You connect the two computers together with the LAN cable. Once that is done, you need to set them both up on the same network. You can do this through the networking wizard. On the computer that has the dialup modem, (if you are using the dial-up for the internet) you make sure the settings for the network wizard is set to ''This computer connects directly to the Internet''. For the computer that doesn't have the dial-up, you use the settings ''This computer connects to the internet through another computer or gateway''. That should do it and as long as the connecting computer is connected to the internet, the other computer will have internet as well.