Need networking help for a gaming solution

[Veech]

Hello ,
I am recieving a new computer and am putting this one for parents so they can surf the web while i do my thing.
Now i want to connect the old computer and the New computer so they both use my 1 cable modem.

Now i dont know the best way to do this.

I dont want my ping time to go up cause im using a router or something. So what do i use that wont slow my ping times down. (And i am not talking about when parents are on the net, i am talking in general if the thing letting 2 comps connect to eachother will increase my ping and pl).


So what do i do buy a router , network somehow what do i do?

And if my parents are surfing the web and i am playing quake3 which is all i will play with new computer will my ping and pl go high?

Thanks for your help.

[Far-N-Wide]

Since your going to share the data pipe with your parents. Anyway you do this your going to see a performance drop when you Quake.

Since your on a cable modem, your game play should not be noticable when the folks surf. When they pull 100k files you'll squirm a bit. Big files 1-10Mg & above, you'll sweat alot in the game. You will still be ahead of the 56krs and should not complain.

I have Sygate + 5 PCs all shareing a single 56K modem. All 5 browsing & E-mailing work fine. If two or more pull files, life is not good.

goto http://www.sybergen.com/products/gate_ov.htm

for details on sygate.

[Judas]

Buy the Umax Ugate+, then hook them up like this: Cable Modem > UGate+ > Hub. Then plug both PC's into the Hub. You'll have to setup the Ugate+ for your cable modem settings, and to be a dhcp server for the pc's. It's pretty simple.