"2 computers, 1 hub, 1 cable modem, 1ip?"

I am planing to get att@home service, but before I do I would like to know if i can do the following:

I have 2 computers, connected to a netgear hub; use the uplink port to the CM and pay for only one IP.

With DSL I could do this, because the cisco router had a proxy server built into it. Do CM's have that? I'm planing to lease the modem from ATT and when I asked them which ones they would give me, I got answers like 'top of the line' and 'whatever the guy in the truck has' Not to helpful when trying to find the info on if the CM has proxy firmware built into it.

If i have to buy a router/hub; or a 2nd ip; or use ICS or any other similar proxy software I would rather use the alternate config of:

1 CPU has a internal CM.
2 computers hubed together, and Winroute/wingate/ics/etc.. installed on the one with the CM.

What would be the load on that computer with the CM? Is it bandwith dependent? I believe it is a p2 or p3 450 with 128 or 96 megs win2k pro (Its my roomates so I'm not sure)

For any of the configurations, I don't care about gaming w/ eachother or sharing files (I would like to share files and printers) but mostly on web browsing.

@home service requires an ip address for every computer you connect with. If you want to use both at the same time you will need to buy(yes buy @home sucks) another ip. There are ways to avoid this with a router but i can tell you even just surfing the web it ensnares your bandwith and just plain sucks. But on the bright side @home has called it quits and soon you will have a diff brodband company

I hear ya, just installed a linksys dsl/cable phoneline router, with one PC on the lan and the other on the phoneline, lost almost half my bandwith and this is with the PC on the lan. What I have heard is that ATT purchased @home.

<There are ways to avoid this with a router but i can tell you even just surfing the web it ensnares your bandwith and just plain sucks. But on the bright side @home has called it quits and soon you will have a diff brodband company.>

<There are ways to avoid this with a router but i can tell you even just surfing the web it ensnares your bandwith and just plain sucks. But on the bright side @home has called it quits and soon you will have a diff brodband company.>

This is a bunch of bullshit Bill. You don't know what your talking about. Routers don't "ensare" bandwith at all. Most probably it is user error. heh.

Bullshit. You don't need to purchise the second IP from them. I've got @Home as well. The PC is connected directly to the cable modem and shares the connection with my laptop through the WinRoute firewall. Home firewall softwares don't take much of computer resourses, so you can run it safely on the background, not worrying about loosing on the CPU power. Though you'll have to have the sharing PC on if you want to use the connection from the other computer, so it is chipper on your electrical bill to bye a hardware router such as Linksys (i think the best on the market).
Btw, if interested, Win2000 Pro and Server already come with internet sharing with port mapping and all that stuff. Win ME has one too, but it's crap. Screwed up my system. I had to reinstall TCP/IP in order to fix it.

I have 1ip and attempted to network two computers in my home. The original computer os is win98se and the attempted networking computer is running win 2000pro. I connected the Linksys router uplink to the CM and the original computer stopped connecting to the internet.I am using att@home. Where did I go wrong? Do I need to install software such as winroute on both computers?

You can piece this info togetherby going to the Linksys and ATT sites, but neither seems to want to put it all together.

You can piece this info togetherby going to the Linksys and ATT sites, but neither seems to want to put it all together.

- Hook up computer directly to modem. ATT seems to be basing hookups on network device MAC address and it appears this registers your MAC address

- Hook up with WAN port of your Linksys router to the cable modem

- On your PC, go to Start --> Run and type in winipcfg. Select the pulldown for your network card. Note the number for your adapter address. Click Release All then Renew All.

- Use your browser to configure your router. By default it is 192.168.1.1

- Clone your MAC address to the router. Depending on the version of router, you will be able to do this on the home page or in the Advanced section. Type the MAC address you got in the winipcfg into the User Defined WAN Mac address. Click Apply

- To be safe, unplug your cable modem for 30 seconds, then plug it back in.

If you can't find MAC address cloning in your router configuration, you'll need to go to the Linksys site and get the EPROM flasher to upgrade your router.

BTW: hub users can run straight through, at least for now, because all MAC addresses seem to be getting registered.

Cable modems aren't exacly like DSL they just pump bandwidth up and down coax lines through and IP trasfer method. Doing this with a hub requiers two ip addresses because a hub only connects computers together and to get internet on it the computer both most have the cable modem ip address registered on there computer. And @home doesn't work with two IP adresses on the line. To do this get a Router w/lan ports it will allow you to share your cable modem with one ip address. See what i do is this. MY cable modem receives intenet all the time. It has a bulit in DHCP server (A DHCP server assigns ip addresses to any hooked up device) it will send an ip address to my router (that is the ip address @home gives you). My router obtains an IP address automatically. Now all my computers are connected to this router. The router also has a DHCP server but it assigns internal ip addresses (internal ip addresses are non lease or world wide web ip addresse the just assign them to computers to define which computer is witch. MY router will send out ip addresses to my computers everytime a pc boots up. And internet is one every computer hooked up to the router. I would recommend the linksys cable/dsl four port router its avalable online or at bestbuy, comp USA, circuit city, etc. This should work it works perfect for me i get 5-7mbps on my computers through my cable modem.

> i get 5-7mbps on
>my computers through my cable
>modem.

Who is your isp? And what is your location? Those speeds sound a little unbelievable. But that rocks if you are really getting those speeds.

Mike