unable to detect Wingate

What is Wingate?
Why is it necessary?
I have followed all of the practically networked steps and
recieve good ping results on both computers. When I go to
the next step and try to down load the free version of the
sharing software 2.1d version of Wingate I get the above
error message.
Anyone know what I am doing wrong?

In article <020801c3c2a4$0303ed80$(E-Mail Removed)>,
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>What is Wingate?

Wingate is a proxy server program that allows a computer to share its
Internet connection with other computers on a network.

>Why is it necessary?

It isn't necessary. There are lots of other ways to share an Internet
connection. What tells you that Wingate is necessary?

>I have followed all of the practically networked steps and
>recieve good ping results on both computers. When I go to
>the next step and try to down load the free version of the
>sharing software 2.1d version of Wingate I get the above
>error message.

What steps did you follow? What is the URL of the web page at
PracticallyNetworked?

>Anyone know what I am doing wrong?

No, because we don't know what you're doing. Please provide more
details.

Windows Me has a built-in Internet Connection Sharing program, so
there's no need for Wingate. I've written a web page with details:

ICS Installation [WinMe]
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/...smeinstall.htm
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