Connecting 98se [& XP] to virgin broadband

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I'm an existing ntl/virgin phone customer and spoke to virgin about having their broadband installed and they say 98se won't work with their cable modem, is this true and if so what is the difficulty, or is it Virginspeak for we don't offer any support for 98se connection problems?

The 98se pc is a pentium3 with an intel® Pro/100 VM network connection.

The other pc is a P4 with XP with a network card,

I don't need wireless and have no wish to file and printer share between the two pc's so what is the simplest and cheapest way to go for connecting them both up to broadband?

Thanks

[eyeball]

98se used to work with NTL before they were virgin, i dont see why it still would not?. the best way to get around this one may be to have 2 NICS in the xp machine and a crossover between the 2 machines and then to run ics (internet connection sharing) on the xp machine and share the internet connection

EDIT: sorry not the best way, but the cheapest way is definatley ics. the best way would be a cable router of course

Edited April 16, 2007 by eyeball

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Thanks eyeball, think of the two I'll go for the cable router route

which one do you recommend that is at the affordable end but reliable?

[eyeball]

well personally i always use zyxel products but they are not the cheapest. You get what you pay for really, try ebuyer.co.uk (i guess your in the uk?)