Click the OK button twice
to close these dialog boxes??”ICS is setup and ready.
1.
2.
3.
Figure 7-13
Using Windows XP
ICS to extend your
cellular data connection
to other computers
through an Ethernet
switch
Figure 7-14
Enable ICS to work
automatically for all
computers on your
local network.
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Connect all of your computers by Ethernet cable to an Ethernet switch. When
Windows starts, your computers should acquire/assume a private network
address to be able to communicate with each other, your ICS computer will
sense requests to access the Internet, and your cell modem will connect??”and
then you??™re surfing the Web! Figure 7-15 shows a traceroute path from a
computer sharing the cell connection, through an ICS computer, and finally
to the CNET website address.
4.
Figure 7-15
Tracing the route from
a sharing computer,
through the ICS
computer, to CNET
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Project 8
TiVo at Home
What You??™ll Need
Your computer
Your local area network
USB-to-Ethernet network adapter
TiVo Type 2
TiVo Desktop Software 2.4
Cost: USB LAN adapter $30; TiVo unit $200; TiVo Desktop
Software, free
While TiVo told us it would change the way you watch TV, it now means a
lot more than sitting in the recliner with a remote, time-traveling through
show after show and skipping commercials. TiVo has changed a bit in the
past few years??”improved really??”allowing you to do more across your home network
and over the Internet.
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