networking 4 computers

[Gavin61]

I am about to network 4 computers together and then have 2 computers be dialed up to the internet and have the other 2 share the connections of the two... i.e. 1-1 1-1 then have them all connected together. My question: How slow will the connections be b/c of using Dial-Up...and is there going to be a problem if 3 have XP and the other has win98?

THANKS

 

[jlanka]

it will be slower than normal dialup if moe than one person is online at the same time. Shouldn't be a problem with those 2 OS.

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[upec]

I don't think you can have 2 computers in the same network run Internet Connection and sharing at same time.

 

[upec]

If you want to use both modem at same time to speed up the Internet connection then you can install both modem into one computer and enable multilink. I think in order to use multilink your ISP have to support it but I am not sure about it.

 

[Magic_Robertson]

i connected my two computers through one connection and when both computers were loading different page's it was slloooowwww!!!

i suggest when doing what your thinking of disable all the crap that IE use's ;like sound's, pic's , checking for updates,
anything that you dont need, everything will help one way or another.

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[Gavin61]

Well, I think what is going to happen is of the two connected...one will usually just be checking e-mail...the other..on-line. And the same thing for the other two connected. I figured performance would decrease...just wanted to know how much....

One more thing...any ideas on what equipment I should use?
I just need 4 computers and a printer hooked together...

 

[Magic_Robertson]

well with my network, i got my computers hooked upto an 8port switch,

its better to get a switch coz, if you got a 100mega bit per sec hub each computer will share that 100Mbps of bandwith

if you get a switch each computer will get 100Mbps of bandwith for them selve's.

oh and when sharing the internet, having one computer for email , and the other for browsing will speed the browsing side up. email is just email, it never use's much speed from the 56k.

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