Sharing an ADSL connection ' Windows 98/ME/2000

Sharing an ADSL connection – Windows 98/ME/2000

Note 1: Before trying to share your ADSL connection, be sure that you can already connect to the internet without any problems! This may sound silly, but it will certainly help ;)

Note 2: The sharing of your ADSL connection with Internet Connection Sharing integrated into 98/ME/2000 is not possible if you use an Ethernet 300 modem included in your France Telecom Netessimo kit!
It is actually possible, but you need to have two different network cards in the computer, one to create the connection and the second to share over your local network.

Personally, I don’t recommend this solution….. There is a better and more efficient way while having only one network card installed, and that is to install the RASPPPoE program.

I recommend that you uninstall the Netessimo kit and replace it with the RASPPPoE program which is free and represents a lot of advantages which will be explained in this tutorial. This is the solution that I use and I am VERY happy J

There are a large number of solutions presented on the internet with ways of sharing your ADSL connection among multiple computers. It is possible to use a number of programs, often for sale like:

• A proxy (Wingate), but this is still quite difficult to configure.
• A NAT like Winroute
  

This said, the simplest solution and that which costs the least, as it is integrated into Windows, is to use the Internet Connection Sharing tool (ICS). This is very simple to setup and has a number of advantages.

If you are using a switch or hub, ICS + RRSPPPoE will give you an enormous advantage over other solutions, and you won’t need a dedicated server to connect you to the internet!
I will show you that it is possible for each PC on a network to be able to independently connect to the internet. Also, you won’t need to turn the PC on for PC number 2 to be able to connect! What a dream ;-)