Can't Connect guest computer to internet

I have just set up a network on my two computers at home using the Belkin 5 Port Network Switch. My main reason for setting up the network is to enable the sharing of my AOL Broadband connection.

While I have successfully set up the network and can share files and printers etc I have found it impossible to launch my internet connection from the guest computer - I am using AOL version 9 and have no problem launching it from the host computer. I have spent many fruitless hours trying to configure/reconfigure the system using AOL , Windows XP and Microsoft Help pages/wizards etc, but without success.

It should be noted that I bought the Network Switch, as part of the Soho Networking Kit, following advice from the staff that this equipment was sufficient to set up a local network and connect to the Internet without the need for a router.

I picked a bad week to give up drinking!!!

Can you please help?

psmith917 wrote:


I have just set up a network on my two computers at home using the
Belkin 5 Port Network Switch. My main reason for setting up the
network is to enable the sharing of my AOL Broadband connection.

While I have successfully set up the network and can share files and
printers etc I have found it impossible to launch my internet
connection from the guest computer - I am using AOL version 9 and have
no problem launching it from the host computer. I have spent many
fruitless hours trying to configure/reconfigure the system using AOL ,
Windows XP and Microsoft Help pages/wizards etc, but without success.

It should be noted that I bought the Network Switch, as part of the
Soho Networking Kit, following advice from the staff that this
equipment was sufficient to set up a local network and connect to the
Internet without the need for a router.

I picked a bad week to give up drinking!!!

Can you please help?


Unless things have changed, the last time I set up a client's broadband
sharing with an AOL connection (as opposed to using some other ISP for
the cable/dsl access), only a Linksys router would work. There was
actually a hardware restriction. It probably has been at least a year
since I did this, so things could be different now. I don't know what
"advice from the staff" means; did you get the information from AOL
staff that other broadband routers are now supported?

You want a router, not a switch anyway. Much easier to deal with, and
probably less money than you spent on the "Soho Networking Kit"
whatever that is.

Also, AFAIK you can't log on to AOL with the same account on more than
one machine, so you have to have multiple accounts.

Malke
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I have just set up a network on my two computers at home using the
Belkin 5 Port Network Switch. My main reason for setting up the
network is to enable the sharing of my AOL Broadband connection.

While I have successfully set up the network and can share files and
printers etc I have found it impossible to launch my internet
connection from the guest computer - I am using AOL version 9 and have
no problem launching it from the host computer. I have spent many
fruitless hours trying to configure/reconfigure the system using AOL ,
Windows XP and Microsoft Help pages/wizards etc, but without success.

It should be noted that I bought the Network Switch, as part of the
Soho Networking Kit, following advice from the staff that this
equipment was sufficient to set up a local network and connect to the
Internet without the need for a router.

I picked a bad week to give up drinking!!!

Can you please help?

AOL is its own world, often not following standard Windows
conventions, and I don't know if it's possible to share an AOL
broadband connection. Call AOL technical support and ask them how to
do it -- it might require special hardware.
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