Sharing internet connection??

I have windows me, and have just bought a xbox live kit, Ive been told that
it only works on win 2000 and win xp, This is due to not being able to use
dial up networking to share the connection to the xbox, the only way ive been
told is to update to win xp? If you can help please explain as though talking
to a five yr old, as i need steps to do something or the rattle gets thrown
from the pram, thanks in advance...

What does it say on the box?
Win ME (and Win98) systems can also use broadband - if your ISP supports it.
RTFM

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"spongey" wrote in message
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I have windows me, and have just bought a xbox live kit, Ive been told that
it only works on win 2000 and win xp, This is due to not being able to use
dial up networking to share the connection to the xbox, the only way ive
been
told is to update to win xp? If you can help please explain as though
talking
to a five yr old, as i need steps to do something or the rattle gets
thrown
from the pram, thanks in advance...

How to configure Internet Connection Sharing
1. Sign on to AOL
2. When you have signed on, click on the Start menu button, then move your
mouse cursor to Settings, then click Network and Dial-Up Connections. The
Network and Dial-Up Connections window will appear.
3. A small window should now appear showing some icons, of which one will be
called Local Area Network, and another will be the connection you use to
connect to the Internet, (Internet 2). If you do not have at least two icons,
your PC is not able to act as a Microsoft ICS host. Check to make sure your
network card is installed correctly.
4. Assuming you do have at least two icons, select the icon for your
Internet connection, for AOL this is Internet 2 connection. This should be
the connection you wish to share. Right-click it, and then click Properties.
5. In the Properties dialog box, click on the 'Advanced' tab and then click
the check box stating you wish to enable Internet Connection Sharing.
6. Click OK to close the Properties dialog box.

With these steps completed, your PC should now be configured to share your
existing Internet connection. If you have not already done so, now is the
time to set up the cable connections between your console and PC.


Thats how aol says i connect to the internet sharing, but on ME it doesnt
have the internet 2 icon, only,
make new connection,
aol,
aol diognostics,

all of these dont have the internet sharing option on them, when i phoned
aol they said you cant do it on win ME, Onnly on 2000 and xp.

AOL will NOT allow you to share an internet connection on a dialup service -
only on broadband.
again, the distinction is between broadband and dialup - not between OS's


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"spongey" wrote in message
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How to configure Internet Connection Sharing
1. Sign on to AOL
2. When you have signed on, click on the Start menu button, then move your
mouse cursor to Settings, then click Network and Dial-Up Connections. The
Network and Dial-Up Connections window will appear.
3. A small window should now appear showing some icons, of which one will
be
called Local Area Network, and another will be the connection you use to
connect to the Internet, (Internet 2). If you do not have at least two
icons,
your PC is not able to act as a Microsoft ICS host. Check to make sure
your
network card is installed correctly.
4. Assuming you do have at least two icons, select the icon for your
Internet connection, for AOL this is Internet 2 connection. This should be
the connection you wish to share. Right-click it, and then click
Properties.
5. In the Properties dialog box, click on the 'Advanced' tab and then
click
the check box stating you wish to enable Internet Connection Sharing.
6. Click OK to close the Properties dialog box.

With these steps completed, your PC should now be configured to share your
existing Internet connection. If you have not already done so, now is the
time to set up the cable connections between your console and PC.


Thats how aol says i connect to the internet sharing, but on ME it doesnt
have the internet 2 icon, only,
make new connection,
aol,
aol diognostics,

all of these dont have the internet sharing option on them, when i phoned
aol they said you cant do it on win ME, Onnly on 2000 and xp.

Noel Paton wrote:

AOL will NOT allow you to share an internet connection on a dialup
service - only on broadband.
again, the distinction is between broadband and dialup - not between
OS's

Note also that this is AOL making this restriction not the operating
system. Use any other ISP and one can use Internet Connection Sharing
whether on dial-up or broadband.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP

Some others also get shirty about it - if they find out - but AOL is the
only one I know of that pre-empts the problem by using their own dialler
which blocks efforts to use ICS

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows)

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"Mike M" wrote in message
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Noel Paton wrote:

AOL will NOT allow you to share an internet connection on a dialup
service - only on broadband.
again, the distinction is between broadband and dialup - not between
OS's

Note also that this is AOL making this restriction not the operating
system. Use any other ISP and one can use Internet Connection Sharing
whether on dial-up or broadband.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP

Getting "shirty", IOW not officially permitting the use of internet
sharing, is I feel somewhat different though from actually preventing the
use of ICS through the use of proprietary connection software such as
practiced by AOL. For a short time I used such an ISP who objected to my
posting details in their private newsgroups of how to enable ICS back in
the days of Win 98 when a third party product was required (ICS was
introduced by Microsoft in 98SE). The original MSN (as an ISP) from way
back (Win 95) was much like AOL in so much as little was possible other
than via their own interface but that all changed with, I think, MSN2.5.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Noel Paton wrote:

Some others also get shirty about it - if they find out - but AOL is
the only one I know of that pre-empts the problem by using their own
dialler which blocks efforts to use ICS

i would switch but ive only just signed up so have a 12mth contract, Is there
any way to bypass this? Or do i need to buy a new computer? I did the
download check on microsoft to see if my comp can take xp but said i cant so
what should i do??

I say again - XP will NOT fix your problem with ICS over AOL
(I'm not even convinced that you need ICS, unless you plan on having both
the XBox and the PC online at the same time - but as I've never seen an Xbox
yet, I'm shooting from the hip here!)

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"spongey" wrote in message
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i would switch but ive only just signed up so have a 12mth contract, Is
there
any way to bypass this? Or do i need to buy a new computer? I did the
download check on microsoft to see if my comp can take xp but said i cant
so
what should i do??

spongey wrote:

i would switch but ive only just signed up so have a 12mth contract,
Is there any way to bypass this? Or do i need to buy a new computer?
I did the download check on microsoft to see if my comp can take xp
but said i cant so what should i do??

So why did you say "due to not being able to use dial up networking to
share the connection"? Internet Connection Sharing has been a feature of
Microsoft operating systems since Win 98SE and if an xbox works with XP's
ICS it should also work with that in Win Me as it also should with that
provided by Win 98SE.

As for "what should I do?" a good place to start could be to ask the
correct question in the correct place. Win Me supports internet
connection sharing. AOL, I understand supports internet connection
sharing provided the user is on broadband - which you are. So other than
a connection to the internet what are the requirements of your xbox? I
suspect none so I can't see why you cannot use Win Me's ICS as the
connection since as far as the xbox is concerned the connection will
appear identical to that provided by either XP or a direct connection to a
router. What you may have to do though is configure port forwarding
through the host to the xbox regardless of the host be it Win Me, XP or a
router.

Regards,
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Mike Maltby MS-MVP