Sharing My AOL connection on my LAN in Windows XP

[EBK]

I have a dial-up AOL connection (56k). I would Like to share it with my other computer on my network, but it can't do it. I've read that you can't share your DSL connection on AOL, but I haven't read anything about dial-up. I'm not too worried about sharing AOL itself, just the connection, so I can use IE and AIM on my other computer. Any help is appreciated.

[ChrisX]

I have a dial-up AOL connection (56k). I would Like to share it with my other computer on my network, but it can't do it.

I don't thing you can share AOL's connection with the other computers in the network. I think you should check with them.

I had a feeling of this earlier this year and looked no further on AOL. They expected me to download their browser and their programs before using their connection. They have conditions on their Internet connection.

I didn't want to install any more browsers and programs. IE6 and Netscape 6 is enough. No more and no good. I don't want the AOL browser and they claim life is easier on the web with AOL. What rubbish, I don't want the extras. I want access.

I signed up with another ISP without having to install anything extra, just configure the Internet connection settings in the computer and make it shared.

I have no problem with Internet sharing in my home network using IE6 as a default browser.

[deadpac]

Use a proxy such as Wingate, run the proxy on the computer with the AOL connection and then setup the other computer to connect via the proxy.

But why would you want to?

You're splitting up 5k download and 3k upload between two computers, as bad as dialup is you're making it worse by adding another computer to that connection. [actual data stream in bytes and not baud rate]

Bad thing about a proxy setup is that the computer with the connection MUST BE ON if the other computers are going to use it's connection.

Not like a router where it doesn't matter which computer is on since the router is the one that actually maintains the connection and not the nodes [computers] on the network. AND NO you can't route a dial up connection.

The connection is shared but not the AOL content, anyways been 8 years since I had AOHELL, i mean AOL and even though you could have both computers using AOL's carpyy browser content, both log in's would have to be from different accounts, because no more than one log in per master account. As for AIM, any computer can be running AIM as long as it's different screen names.