Home network, Please Help me.....

[moggy]

Hi,
I am hoping you could help. I have two pc's, a ntl cable modem, and two nic's in one computer. Right now I have two LAN's showing on the server computer, and have internet connection sharing enabled. All seems to work fine, except that the access from the client computer to the cable modem is really slow, needing a long time to access web pages. Do you know how I can fix this?
Thankyou in advance.

2 PC's XP
hub
two nic's on server pc
Cable modem
ICS

[TranZferR]

If you have a hub to connect the two pc's then why do you need to nic's in the one pc? The only reason you would need two nic's in one pc is if you didn't have a HUB..Which you do.. The second NIC enables your PC to be the HUB. It makes the client PC act as a Proxy server making the client download all info going to pc#2 before it sends it there.. You are waiting for PC1 to download that data instead of it just going straight to PC#2. Remove the second NIC as it is not required for what you want to do.. Just plug each PC with it's own NIC into the HUB and your problem is solved providing you have enough bandwidth to cover the demands..

[TranZferR]

I didn't read your question correctly .. Sorry !

[glc1]

Originally posted by TranZferR
If you have a hub to connect the two pc's then why do you need to nic's in the one pc? The only reason you would need two nic's in one pc is if you didn't have a HUB..Which you do.. The second NIC enables your PC to be the HUB. It makes the client PC act as a Proxy server making the client download all info going to pc#2 before it sends it there.. You are waiting for PC1 to download that data instead of it just going straight to PC#2. Remove the second NIC as it is not required for what you want to do.. Just plug each PC with it's own NIC into the HUB and your problem is solved providing you have enough bandwidth to cover the demands.. The hub won't share his connection by itself with out purchasing more IPs from his provider, so setting one PC up as a server is one way of doing it. Using a router is another.

What OS is the client running?