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Not sure if you're interested in a h/w solution but I use the <a href="http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=28&prid=176" target="_blank">Linksys HPRO200</a> router at home. We rent right now so can't run CAT5 in the house. It works well, with no apparent problems.
If I remember rightly, finding one was a bit of a chore though, I think I ended up at Amazon. Of course, now that summers here, I ended up adding a wireless access point so the wife can work outside but it handles that with no problems too.
Hope this helps
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I may indeed eventually wind up going that route. Although my workaround seems to be doing the job just fine, I would like a more elegant permanent solution.
I'm actually starting to get the distinct impression that the PPPoE adapter supplied by my ISP (EnterNet 300) is the culprit. It seems to have incompatibility issues with every internet sharing solution I've tried (including Wingate and ICS). Considering my ISP is aggressively pushing a $300 home networking kit, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if this was by design.
I tried a different 3rd party PPPoE adapter (RASPPPoE), but I couldn't get it to install or load properly. That was very disappointing, because I liked the fact that it seemlessly integrated itself into Win2K's normal networking.
If anyone knows of another 3rd party adapter I can try I will certainly give it a shot. One other possibility of course is to upgrade my ICS machine to Xp Pro and use that OS's native PPPoE adapter. I'd be willing to bet my first born that there won't be any incompatibility issues between that and ICS! :)
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Eureka! I found the answer to my ICS/ADSL problem at annoyances.org:
<a href="http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article04-107" target="_blank">http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article04-107</a>
It's definitely a worthy read for anyone planning on running ICS with a PPPoE based DSL connection. What really has me scratching my head though, is that although this is apparently a very common problem, the tech support for my ISP, Efficient Networks (EnterNet 300 software), and microsoft knew nothing about it. Is it just me, or does it seem like anytime you get beyond the very basics with a problem tech support becomes totally useless?
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by mrwilhelm:
<strong>Well, just to give you guys an update now that my DSL is active:
ICS may support DSL, but for me at least it's not behaving properly. Everything works fine on the host machine, but half the websites I try to visit on the client PC's won't load at all (including this one). I tried switching to a 3rd party proxie program (Analog X's Proxie), and that solves my surfing problem on the client machines, but I can't get the e-mail to work at all. The workaround for now is to use the proxie program for browsing on the client boxes and ICS for everything else. So far that seems to work just fine, but every fiber in my being says that it can't be good running these two together. Not to mention the fact that I don't care for workarounds and really prefer things to work as they should (yeah I know, who doesn't :) ).
I don't suppose any of you guys have any thoughts as to what might be going on here or how to fix it?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">To get AnalogX Proxy to work for your mail, enable mail in the proxy comfiguration, then on the client machine enter the host machine's IP address for your mail server. I haven't used it in almost a year, but it worked fine from what I can remember.
