How do I set up a shared dial-up conection?

Question

try to picture this: I have 4 computers 3 use the network to file prating and sharing and the last can do whatever leave it or just put it back in a dusty closet i have a linksys WRT56G vr.2 router and 6 cat-5/cat-5e cable and i also have a "8-port mini hub" well i know it is old and last time i used it i thank it only goes 10mb/s so i would like to keep it in closet? i have ubuntu server and open suse Linux for an os if i need a pc on all mt PCs have windows xp sp3? thanks for the elp and 1 other

thang i used to shair my conection on my main pc by right clicking my conection click advanced and checked them all so here and there it would work but this PC didn't stay on!

Answer 1

To be honest, I've shared dial-up but it's really impracticle - I ended up configuring each computer to dial on their own and it was faster and more reliable than sharing a insanely slow connection.

If you really want to, in XP you run the network setup wizard and pick the option called "this computer connects directly to the internet and all other computers connect directly or through this computer" - that'll make that computer the DHCP server and internet host.

NOTE: you should disable your other DHCP server (probably in the router) or connect the internet sharing computer to the router's WAN port (which may block that computer from accessing the rest of the network) if you do this...

Keep in mind, the other computers will expect a high-speed connection so many things (like streaming) won't work at all - and if all the computers start windows-updating at once it'll suck your connection so much that simple web pages won't load.