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splitting dialup service

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My cable company is bugging out.. so much so where I installed AOL to use a phone line to get on the internet.

They're not open till monday.

Lets say I used a connector and split my phone line to have one line go to computer A and one line goin to computer B, would this work?
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not to have both machines on simultaneously it won't.

You could however get an external modem that has an ethernet connection and "split" that to a hub or switch then network your machines inside your house.

or, I think windows has some built in "switching" ability... i wanna say it's called 'internet connectoin sharing' but I might be wrong...
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Yep if you use windows then you need to right click the connection and go to properties. Under advanced there's an option "Allow other computers to use this internet connection" or something to that effect.

In linux you use IPTABLES to create a route and then set the default gateway of other PC's to match the IP of your computer with the connection. I dont remember the exact syntax but something like: (this isn't secure BTW)...

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iptables -t nat -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE
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d11wtq wrote:Yep if you use windows then you need to right click the connection and go to properties. Under advanced there's an option "Allow other computers to use this internet connection" or something to that effect.
Will both computers be able to share the dialup connection (slowwwww I know) at the same time?
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The only way you could do it is using a hub or a crossed network cable. Then just assign your computers an internal IP. I done this setup for a mate and it is really, I mean *really* slow...
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Luckily, I get my cable back tommorrow. I had to share a computer this weeked... sucks but.. tommorrow will be awesome :-D
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