Is it possible to connect to the net through another comp?

Duken · Post by **Duken** » 2005-07-10 12:32pm

Now that I have my old win 98 box mostly working (endless thanks to Faram and Destructionator XIII for helping with the OS reinstall) I need to run windows update. However, we have a cable modem and they wern't around in 1995. Is it possible to hook up the old computer to the new one and get online that way?

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2005-07-10 12:47pm

Cable modems were around in 1995.

Moreover it does not matter what your connecting with, what you need are a pair of NIC cards(Network Interface cards), these can be had for around $20 a pop these days, get something brandname and the same company like 3-Com, Dlink, Linkus ect

Make your you have a PCI slot free in each computer(Its about five six inches long and its white, ISA are the black ones and the AGP slot is the brown one at the top if you have one)

More detailed help to come assuming you got the right hardware.(Oh and a hub can't forget that)

Post by **Dalton** » 2005-07-10 01:44pm

Why not just a crossover cable?

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2005-07-10 02:42pm

Or a lan (ethernet based) if you connect to the internet with a router or have more pc's at home.

Duken · Post by **Duken** » 2005-07-10 02:55pm

I asked that wrong. If I hooked the old computer's modem to the new computer's modem (with a phone cord) , while the new one was also connected to the cable modem; Would the old computer be able to access the internet? I have a negative amount of money to spend in the forseeable future so basically anything else is out of the question.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-07-10 03:17pm

Duken wrote:I asked that wrong. If I hooked the old computer's modem to the new computer's modem (with a phone cord) , while the new one was also connected to the cable modem; Would the old computer be able to access the internet? I have a negative amount of money to spend in the forseeable future so basically anything else is out of the question.

It still wouldn't be able to access it at anymore than dial-up speeds, and you would likely need some sort of router to make them connect properly. (With the speed of the modem at the old computer's end being the bottleneck for that system).

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2005-07-10 03:34pm

You don't need to buy any hardware other than the NICs and a crossover cable if you're willing to leave one computer on all the time so the other can access the net.

Duken · Post by **Duken** » 2005-07-10 07:49pm

General Zod wrote:It still wouldn't be able to access it at anymore than dial-up speeds, and you would likely need some sort of router to make them connect properly. (With the speed of the modem at the old computer's end being the bottleneck for that system).

I don't care about the speed. All I'm going to do is update Win98.

Pu-239 wrote:You don't need to buy any hardware other than the NICs and a crossover cable if you're willing to leave one computer on all the time so the other can access the net.

One computer is already on all the time

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2005-07-11 05:19pm

Duken wrote:I asked that wrong. If I hooked the old computer's modem to the new computer's modem (with a phone cord) , while the new one was also connected to the cable modem; Would the old computer be able to access the internet? I have a negative amount of money to spend in the forseeable future so basically anything else is out of the question.

That might work, but it wouldn't be worth the trouble involved. You would be better off buying a couple of PCI ethernet network cards and a cat5 cross-over cable. When you have both cards installed, set it up as a peer-to-peer network, and you're done.