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Cable modem to Dial-Up modem?

Jun 5, 2007 5:39AM PDT

Hello. I recently got Cable Internet service (less the 2 weeks ago), and I am trying to figure out how to allow my fiancee to connect to it through her dialup modem. Where she lives, she can ONLY get dialup, but if she can connect to the cable Internet through me, then she can surf much faster than with her current dialup ISP. Just to let you know, we are both in the same county, so the call would be free, and we both have Windows XP. I thought that the Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) might be the area that I needed to configure from my Cable modem to her dialup modem, but I have yet to figure it out. I also tried to have my computer waiting for her to call in, and when she did, she could not get to the Internet. Should I apply ICS on this? If anybody knows how to do this, please let me know. Thanks in advance for any help!

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Won't work. . .
Jun 5, 2007 9:06AM PDT
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Wayne, I think he wants to
Jun 5, 2007 10:46AM PDT

have her call his computer, then he wants to share the connection he has so she will then have his service for FREE.


Rick

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(NT) Ah HA!
Jun 6, 2007 4:52AM PDT
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I agree, it won't work
Jun 5, 2007 10:09PM PDT

The only way your fiancee could connect to your own computer would be by using her dial-up connection to connect to the internet. Then, possibly you could both use RPC, or Remote Procedure Calls, but besides the obvious security risks, (if you allow RPC on your computer you allow others to connect to you), it defeats the object.

This is because she would then be connected to the internet using her dial-up connection and not using a cable broadband connection. So the speed of her internet connection is governed by the limitations of dial-up, at most 56Kbps, (kilo bits per second).

The only way you could help her computer increase internet connection speed is for both computers to be "physically" connected, eg through a router, and use the router to split your broadband connection between the two computers. But as she does not live anywhere close, that can't be achieved.

Sorry, what you propose isn't possible.

Mark