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Strategies & Market Trends : Trading the SPOOs with Patrick Slevin! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brister who wrote (5348)	6/14/2000 1:36:00 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	Respond to of 7434

<lets you connect two computer or more to the same internet connection> Without setting up a separate IP? So then you can open a window on one and a different window on the other, I suppose that's the advantage? Would it not be just as easy to attach a second monitor to the first one? I might be missing something. I have three machines hanging off a modem now, but I have to have three separate IPs, addresses, to distinguish the machines from one another. The advantage there is that I am able to spray the machines around, using Ethernet through a router. So I can have three separate users, e-mails, and so on. If I were hanging off Win2000 on one machine, then I suppose that machine would have to be on all the time, like a server, for the other to receive Internet data. I'm sure there is something there, but I don't see the advantage yet. Why would it be superior to just having twin monitors? Is it because you are able to store the data on the first machine without disturbing the second.... <the internet only sees your main computer, so the data on the other computer are much safer than the main computer.> I suppose you may be driving at the possibility of a virus or a hacker breaking through a firewall. Is that part of it?