Best way to share a (!) dialup connection?

Doing a show this sat at a venue that only has dialup capability- no
broadband on the place.

I need internet access for two laptops ( both XP home)

Getting one laptop on dialup will be ok (internal modem)- is the connection
sharing-what-d'ya-do-dah-thingy workable with dialup?!

I may be completely dreaming of course...

TIA

Tim..

"Tim.." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Doing a show this sat at a venue that only has dialup capability- no
> broadband on the place.
>
> I need internet access for two laptops ( both XP home)
>
> Getting one laptop on dialup will be ok (internal modem)- is the
connection
> sharing-what-d'ya-do-dah-thingy workable with dialup?!
>
> I may be completely dreaming of course...
>
> TIA
>
> Tim..
>
>

I say for get dual internet on DU...you'll find its almost impossible to
surf ie slooooooow.

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:59:09 -0000, "Tim.."
<(E-Mail Removed)> mused:

>Doing a show this sat at a venue that only has dialup capability- no
>broadband on the place.
>
>I need internet access for two laptops ( both XP home)
>
>Getting one laptop on dialup will be ok (internal modem)- is the connection
>sharing-what-d'ya-do-dah-thingy workable with dialup?!
>
<http://www.analogx.com/CONTENTS/download/network/proxy.htm>

Always works for me, whereas Windows ICS generaly doesn't.
--
Regards,
Stuart.

"Tim.." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Doing a show this sat at a venue that only has dialup capability- no
> broadband on the place.
>
> I need internet access for two laptops ( both XP home)
>
> Getting one laptop on dialup will be ok (internal modem)- is the
> connection sharing-what-d'ya-do-dah-thingy workable with dialup?!
>
> I may be completely dreaming of course...

You could enable Internet Connection Sharing on the laptop that is connected
to the phone line, then join to other PC to it using a crossover network
cable, with the remote PC configured to get IP/DNS information from the
"router PC" using DHCP.

You should be able to use both PCs for simple browsing, but if you do
anything more intensive like downloading a big file, the other PC might
notice a big deterioration in browsing speed. I think (from the time that I
used ICS just before I got broadband) that roughly 50% of the speed is
allocated to the PC with the modem and about 50% to the one accessing over
Ethernet, when both are using the connection intensively.

"Lurch" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:59:09 -0000, "Tim.."
> <(E-Mail Removed)> mused:
>
>>Doing a show this sat at a venue that only has dialup capability- no
>>broadband on the place.
>>
>>I need internet access for two laptops ( both XP home)
>>
>>Getting one laptop on dialup will be ok (internal modem)- is the
>>connection
>>sharing-what-d'ya-do-dah-thingy workable with dialup?!
>>
> <http://www.analogx.com/CONTENTS/download/network/proxy.htm>
>
> Always works for me, whereas Windows ICS generaly doesn't.

I've not had any problem with ICS. I've even seen it used to share broadband
from a USB modem: a customer had set up his PCs that was before he called me
in nd apart from giving the remote PC a static IP in the wrong subnet
instead of letting the PC get an address in the 192.168.0.x subnet, he'd
done everything else OK. Havin corrected the IP, everything worked
perfectly. Even the "dial on demand" feature worked: with no broadband
connection, if the remote PC requested a web page, the router PC would
automatically connect.

All 100% reliable.

Of course if I was advising anyone who was setting things up from scratch,
I'd advise to use a router rather than ICS.

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:57:28 -0000, "Martin Underwood" <a@b> mused:

>"Lurch" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed).. .
>> On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:59:09 -0000, "Tim.."
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> mused:
>>
>>>Doing a show this sat at a venue that only has dialup capability- no
>>>broadband on the place.
>>>
>>>I need internet access for two laptops ( both XP home)
>>>
>>>Getting one laptop on dialup will be ok (internal modem)- is the
>>>connection
>>>sharing-what-d'ya-do-dah-thingy workable with dialup?!
>>>
>> <http://www.analogx.com/CONTENTS/download/network/proxy.htm>
>>
>> Always works for me, whereas Windows ICS generaly doesn't.
>
>I've not had any problem with ICS. I've even seen it used to share broadband
>from a USB modem: a customer had set up his PCs that was before he called me
>in nd apart from giving the remote PC a static IP in the wrong subnet
>instead of letting the PC get an address in the 192.168.0.x subnet, he'd
>done everything else OK. Havin corrected the IP, everything worked
>perfectly. Even the "dial on demand" feature worked: with no broadband
>connection, if the remote PC requested a web page, the router PC would
>automatically connect.
>
I have had Windows ICS working, but it didn't work 100% of the time.
The analogx proxy worked fine for dial up and ADSL with a USB modem.
Either option is free, I don't mind which one is used, as long as the
OP is happy.
--
Regards,
Stuart.

"Martin Underwood" <a@b> wrote in message
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>
> "Tim.." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:g9CdncYB7sQA-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Doing a show this sat at a venue that only has dialup capability- no
>> broadband on the place.
>>
>> I need internet access for two laptops ( both XP home)
>>
>> Getting one laptop on dialup will be ok (internal modem)- is the
>> connection sharing-what-d'ya-do-dah-thingy workable with dialup?!
>>
>> I may be completely dreaming of course...
>
> You could enable Internet Connection Sharing on the laptop that is
> connected to the phone line, then join to other PC to it using a crossover
> network cable, with the remote PC configured to get IP/DNS information
> from the "router PC" using DHCP.
>
> You should be able to use both PCs for simple browsing, but if you do
> anything more intensive like downloading a big file, the other PC might
> notice a big deterioration in browsing speed. I think (from the time that
> I used ICS just before I got broadband) that roughly 50% of the speed is
> allocated to the PC with the modem and about 50% to the one accessing over
> Ethernet, when both are using the connection intensively.

Thanks all so far for your information.

Internet browsing is all that is required on both Laptops where they both
refresh one single webpage that is hosted and updated by a remote server.

I will have a think and vist the venue for a trial run....

Regards, Tim.