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Does an Internet Sharing connection and a Local Area Network connection count as two connections? Even if they are coming from the same computer? Therefore, 5 computers connecting to the File Server all using the internet counts as 10 connections?
 
Tim Lynch said:
Does an Internet Sharing connection and a Local Area Network connection
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count as two connections? Even if they are coming from the same computer?
Therefore, 5 computers connecting to the File Server all using the internet
counts as 10 connections?

If you have an ICS server and, for example, a LAN machine attempts to
connect to a Web Server on the www, there will be a connection between the a
port on the client and one on the ICS server.
You will then get a port opened from the ICS server to a port listening on
a www server

I think that means the answer to your question is Possibly.

Im not sure what happens if there are transparent proxy servers, routers
nodes etc on the WAN side as seen when you do a tracert
 
I think a get it. This a VERY basic network. I have an Itel 8-port switch and everything else is basically Windows default settings (or as close as it gets). Since the internet connection connects to our ISP e-mail host (not just a web browser), this would be the web server. Even though there is only one modem and one dial-up connection to the ISP server I can have mutilple TCP/IP connections through it (just like the LAN card can connect to multiple LAN cards - each on a separate machine)
In short - I'm forced into getting server software. And I thought upgrading to XP was a GOOD idea. I ran all of these computers on 98SE without a problem. Decided to buy a faster machine for the server and this is what I get. Seems every "improvement" comes with numerous limitations.

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Tim Lynch said:
Does an Internet Sharing connection and a Local Area Network connectio
Click to expand...
count as two connections? Even if they are coming from the same computer
Therefore, 5 computers connecting to the File Server all using the interne
counts as 10 connections

If you have an ICS server and, for example, a LAN machine attempts t
connect to a Web Server on the www, there will be a connection between the
port on the client and one on the ICS server
You will then get a port opened from the ICS server to a port listening o
a www serve

I think that means the answer to your question is Possibly

Im not sure what happens if there are transparent proxy servers, router
nodes etc on the WAN side as seen when you do a tracer
 
Tim said:
Does an Internet Sharing connection and a Local Area Network connection count as two connections? Even if they are coming from the same computer? Therefore, 5 computers connecting to the File Server all using the internet counts as 10 connections?
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No, Internet Connection Sharing doesn't count against XP Home
Edition's limit of simultaneous connections from 5 other computers. A
local area network connection only counts against the limit if it's
being used to connect to a shared disk, folder, or printer. Please
see this Microsoft Knowledge Base article for details:

Inbound Connections Limit in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314882
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