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Using a broadband connection on a PC which is not capable enough to handle the connection software.
Okay, so I already have a wireless network on my home broadband connection from BT. I needed another computer to also use the connection however I did not want to shell out on another wireless network adapter and I could not connect it directly to the wireless base set because the PC has no ethernet card. So I thought I'd use my original broadband modem used before I shared the connection which any other computers. I rearranged my telephone wires so that I had two microfilters coming out of the telephone socket, I then pluged the wireless base set into one and my old broadband modem into the other. I thought I'd solved my problem but when I came to load my original broadband connection software onto the PC with the modem connected I discovered that it was not up to the requirements of the software. I have absolutely no budget so upgrading is out of the question. Is there any less demanding connection software out there that I can use? Is this sharing scheme of mine even likely to work?
The PC with the modem attached is a 200mhz Pentium with 32megs of RAM.
Thanks for your time.
The PC with the modem attached is a 200mhz Pentium with 32megs of RAM.
Thanks for your time.
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Get an old 10baseT ethernet card. These are so obsolete someone will sell it for nothing.
get a paper route for a week or so, and then buy the network card. Honestly , if you cant afford a network card then dont network the computers. My friend has instructions on how to network a sound card to a serial port- he has it working in linux mandrake, but it is really slow (he uses it to tap into a tivo box)
maby you could develope some software that would make this work on a much larger scale, and we could all use it.
maby you could develope some software that would make this work on a much larger scale, and we could all use it.
This won't work as you can only have a single broadband device on each broadband line. Does your wireless router not have any RJ45 (wired LAN) ports on it? A network card should be available for £10 or under.