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My mother has moved in with us for a bit and we would like to be able to
have both our computers on my cable modem. We both have fairly new computers
with Windows XP and ethernet cards. I purchased a NetGear Ethernet Hub and
cables and hooked everything up. My system works just fine but I can't get
the internet on hers. Running the networking wizard I chose my computer as
the main one and it comes up with a message saying that my computer cannot
be the host. Could this be because I have the windows firewall turned on? If
this is the problem then how do I go about setting up this connection and
still have a firewall to the internet? I noticed that since I have this
cable hookup I get pop ups even when I have no internet programs like
Outlook, Explorer or Messager open and that is why I need the firewall.

Thanks in advance. chrissy
 
glas said:
My mother has moved in with us for a bit and we would like to be able to
have both our computers on my cable modem. We both have fairly new computers
with Windows XP and ethernet cards. I purchased a NetGear Ethernet Hub and
cables and hooked everything up. My system works just fine but I can't get
the internet on hers. Running the networking wizard I chose my computer as
the main one and it comes up with a message saying that my computer cannot
be the host. Could this be because I have the windows firewall turned on? If
this is the problem then how do I go about setting up this connection and
still have a firewall to the internet? I noticed that since I have this
cable hookup I get pop ups even when I have no internet programs like
Outlook, Explorer or Messager open and that is why I need the firewall.

Thanks in advance. chrissy
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You have probably purchased the wrong piece of hardware for your
network.

A plain hub will not work for sharing a high-speed internet connection
in the way that you want, at least not with the cable modem also
connected to the hub.

What you need is a home cable/dsl router, which normally also includes
a 4 port hub. You connect the cable/dsl modem to the WAN port on the
router and then up to 4 computers on the LAN ports. The router will
normally include a built-in NAT firewall which can pretty much
eliminate the need for a software firewall on the PCs.

Good luck


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Microsoft MVP
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