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Thanks for the response.  I figured the info on the winproxy site was probably
correct.

Is anyone here using cablemodem technology?  I'm curious how it matches up to
conventional dialing in with regards to downtime and customer support.

Clark Lebarge wrote:

> Your cable company is lying to you. They don't want you to use more than one
> computer unless you are paying big bucks to them. You will have no problem
> proxying your other computers. The only problem you may have with putting
> another network card in your machine would be if they both wanted to use the
> same resources.
> chkmmk@mynetaddress.com wrote in message
> <3511B0E6.6EA9BC3F@mynetaddress.com>...
> >I had asked the question about setting up a small network in the home,
> >and having several internet terminals.  It was suggested that I try
> >"winproxy" because it would allow me to access HTTP, NNTP, POP etc. from
> >all the machines.
> >
> >Today I spoke with the local cable company about their new cable modem
> >access, and they seemed to think that it could never be done from more
> >than one computer without putting multiple cable modems in.  (at which
> >point they would consider it a "business" and adjust my bill
> >accordingly.)  This brings up a few more questions:
> >
> >1.  Apparently they install an external modem-like device, which
> >connects to an internal network card in the PC.  If I wanted to use this
> >PC as a server, would I have any conflict from putting another network
> >card in the machine, for access to the rest of the computers?
> >
> >2.  They told me that only one computer at a time would be able to make
> >use of the internet connection, but when I went to www.winproxy.com and
> >read the overview, it suggested that winproxy will transcend this.  I'm
> >interested in hearing from anyone who is already running this software,
> >for your thoughts on this.
> >
> >Cost-wise, the cable modem seems economical, when you consider the
> >monthly ISP charges, plus the charges for maintaining a second line,
> >plus the costs of the actual calls to the ISP.  Plus the fact that it's
> >much faster.
> >