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I have recently upgraded from dial-up to Virgin Home Broadband, and its minimum requirement is WinXp (SP2). I CAN receive that wirelessly in WinXP (SP3) - is there a chance that I would be able to keep doing my email in WinMe by networking the WinMe system with the WinXP ? Virgin can not tell me if it would work, and if it did, would not 'support it'.
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Virgin's modem sends out wireless signals - which I have accessed with my laptop - as well as having an ethernet socket. The PC that is connected to the modem by ethernet cable, runs WinXP and the internet access is satisfactory. I have also run that PC with WinMe and the internet connection showed NO signs of starting - which conforms with Virgin's statement that WinXP is the minimum requirement for the O/S. I COULD run that PC with a WLAN stick to get wireless internet access, and that would leave its ethernet socket available for networking with my WinMe (in which I would like continued access to the internet, for email anyway). I want some informed opinion as to whether that is liklely to work. Virgin is NOT interested in answering the question.
PC that is connected to the modem by ethernet cable, runs WinXP and the internet access is satisfactory.
You could add a second eithernet card to this machine and then do what's called ICS (internet connection sharing) to the WinME machine. The XP help files will have info on ICS.
F.Y.I. The WinXP does not have an unwired card, but I expect that if I insert the USB-WLAN stick which gives my laptop Wireless access, the same would happen to the WinXP desktop - it would be wirelessly connected, and then I could use the ethernet socket to connect the WinMe by. I deduce then that there is no advantage in 2 ethernet cards over one plus a WLAN stick.
