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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (1497)	6/23/1998 7:43:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 14778

>> WebRamp M3i integrates two 56k Kflex modems into an IP router and 4-port Ethernet hub for shared simultaneous high-speed access to the Internet. Everything comes in one compact unit with one power supply and us supported by one vendor. (End quoted material) >> Does anyone agree that this is a viable solution for me or are there still other alternatives? << This sounds like a reasonable solution. You should also compare,the cost of Webramp with the solution several other Silicon Investor Participants use. They use a network interface card in each computer, a modem connected to one of the two computers and software like WinProxy or Wingate to share the modem between the two computers. As I understand it WinProxy or Wingate is only required to run on one of the two PCs, the Win 98 PC in your case. If this is true then it shouldn't mattter if one of the PCs was a Mac. If not please correct my misunderstanding.

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (1497)	6/30/1998 4:22:00 PM
From: Dirk Hente	Respond to of 14778

clarence, i think there are a lot of alternatives for you to share an internet connection. we talked about proxy/router/nat solutions for internet connection sharing a couple of postings ago. i just had a look at Ramp Networks home page and learned that their routers (like the WebrampM3i) use Network Address Translation (NAT). See this link: rampnet.com Note, that they allow to translate a dynamically assigned IP address (not all NAT routers can do that). Because NAT is application dependent it is very important to have a look at the list of supported applications: rampnet.com If you are only interested in NAT, an interesting alternative is 'sygate'. However, it is available only for win95/NT so you need to set up a pc as your gateway for your local tcp/ip network.