Please excuse the delay.
i am very sorry about the delay.
This is the third laptop of trying so far.
The first had no serial port.
Yes, no serial port, and i only noticed when
i tried to plug in the Modem.
The next had a problem with its browser and
it was unbelievably slow.
This one aint much better,
running 98lite on an old 70 Megacycle Compaq laptop
with 16 MB of ram.
But it works, or seems to so far.
OK so my cable modem is now free to connect to the
XP home computer, usingan ethernet cable.
I will turn on the XP machine now.
and plug in the ethernet cable. OK ?
I will also attempt to post this and look through this thread
to see if i should post anything else.
The cable modem is an NTL cable modem.
The problem machine is a homebrew running XP home.
The problem machine has an ethernet card fitted,
its green lights come on when they should.
Anything you want to know, i will post straightaway.
John
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switching on XP machine now