Networking 2 computers & Cable Modem

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Alexi Smart

You are out of luck. XP will not recognise Win95! It
took me 1.5 hours before I actually went through the
network troubleshooter to find this jewel. I believe
Win95 should be fine to access the Internet through the
router. You should be able to pick up Win98SE for $100
(just a guess), and WinXP will recognise that (I would
advise against getting ME).

LOL

Go Canucks!
 
Ooops. Typo. ... that should have been Win98 not 95.

I am *Sometimes* able to access the Internet with both
computers, but sometimes It won't work. My goal is to
access Both computers, Both printers, Scanner, etc. and the
internet from BOTH Computers.

Thanks,
Mike
(e-mail address removed)
 
Alexi said:
You are out of luck. XP will not recognise Win95! It
took me 1.5 hours before I actually went through the
network troubleshooter to find this jewel. I believe
Win95 should be fine to access the Internet through the
router. You should be able to pick up Win98SE for $100
(just a guess), and WinXP will recognise that (I would
advise against getting ME).

LOL

Go Canucks!
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That is misleading, Alexi. My home net includes XP HE, W2K PRO,
W98SE, and W95b PCs; linked with a Linksys combo router/WAP. All
5 of my PCs can concurrently use the shared cable modem, and all
of those PCs share folders (NTFS, FAT32, and FAT16) with all
of the other PCs. And, I share printers which are on the XP and
W98 PCs with every other PC (except the W95 PC which never prints).

It is true that XP's wizard does not support W95 or W2K PCs, but
that is not much of a loss, since you can easily manually set up
networking on all WinWhatever PCs.
 
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