Internet connection sharing

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I have two XP machines wired together thru a hub. One has
a dial up to the internet. The two computers can share
files and printers okay. I have configured the internet
connection sharing thru the wizard. The client computer
will cause the host computer to dial up when requesting a
web site. The problem: the client computer will only
download limited sites....so far MSN and Google. Other
sites requested will time out, while the host computer
access all sites without problem. I have checked and
double checked and can find no problem with the
connection. Does anyone have a clue how to fix this
 
"Rick" said:
I have two XP machines wired together thru a hub. One has
a dial up to the internet. The two computers can share
files and printers okay. I have configured the internet
connection sharing thru the wizard. The client computer
will cause the host computer to dial up when requesting a
web site. The problem: the client computer will only
download limited sites....so far MSN and Google. Other
sites requested will time out, while the host computer
access all sites without problem. I have checked and
double checked and can find no problem with the
connection. Does anyone have a clue how to fix this
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It's possible that the client computer has the Qhosts virus. Download
and run the removal tool on this web page:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.removal.tool.html

If that doesn't solve it, here's another possibility. I've seen a
similar problem when ICS is sharing a DSL connection, but not with a
dial-up connection. Here are two possible solutions for DSL. Either
one of them might work with dial-up:

1. Install Windows XP Service Pack 1 on the ICS host computer.

2. Find the right MTU setting on the client computer, as shown here:

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article04-107

and then make the setting manually on the client computers, or use
DrTCP to make it:

http://www.dslreports.com/front/drtcp.html
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