Need some help!!!!!

[gtu160]

If I am right I have built a LAN for my two computers, the problem is I can get one computer to work, but not the other one. Vice verse. All I want is to share my cable modem with the two. I've been at this for a week. Now for the hardware. Both computers
OS 98se

NICs SOHOware fast auto10\100 pci fast ethernet card

One Intellinet ative networking 5port 10\100 SOHO Switch.

ran with cat5 wiring.

I have RCN for ISP running Toshiba PCx2500 cable modem.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong but someones got to know how to fix this. Thank you

[cyberskye]

Do you have two ip addresses from your isp? If not, then you need a router to connect to your modem. A switch cannot share a single IP among machines. A NAT router can.

[JackMDS]

May be this can Help.

Link: Basic Options for Internet Connection Sharing. (http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=105)

Link: Hubs, routers, switches, DSL, LANs, WANs...? (http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=48)

El Cheappo of the month.

Link: Belkin 4 Port Cable/DSL Gateway Router. $9.99 (after rebate)] (http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0151876)

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[gtu160]

So my switch here ain't going to do crap for me. What is the Switch for anyway then? This belkin will let me share my connection? How about file shareing between the two computers? THANK YOU

[JackMDS]

If the switch has a nice color you can use it for decoration.

Once you have a functional network, sharing files and printers is a software setting thing, it is not a Network's Hardware function.

Log to the following page.

Scroll down, in the middle (yellow hi-lited) you will find info, and links to solve sharing problems.

Link: Basic Networking. (http://www.ezlan.net/basic.html)