Sharing Internet through pc?

**Scottio200** · 13th February 2005

Hi

Me and my housemates are all networked thorough a router, however there is only 4 ports on the router and now there is a 5th computer in the house, what i would like to know is if i could use internet connection sharing through my PC for the 5th machine?

I have 2 network cards on my machine so i presume it will work but im not sure how to set it all up.

Anyone got any ideas on how to set this up?

My PC is on 24-7 so there is no problems with that, its just how to set it up im not sure about.

Cheers
Scottio

**Ashy** · 14th February 2005

Internet Connection Sharing (ICS), you can find some guides here.. http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/ics.
If you have an old hub/switch lying around you could hook that into the router to give more ports

hth,
Ashy.

**/dev/null** · 14th February 2005

I'd personally go for getting a new router - you can pick up a six port one for not much and then flog the other on ebay!
At least that way you know everything is ok and normalised!