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To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (1634)	7/3/1998 8:56:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Respond to of 14778

Subject: Sharing a Modem There are a lot more programs available for sharing a modem on a network than I realized. Tucows at tucows.ionet.net lists 18 programs that enable modem sharing and rates the programs from 3 1/2 cows to 5 cows. Top rated by Tucows are WinProxy by LanProjekt for $99, WinGate for cost varies and Rideway for $30. Note on terminology. technically the software listed there is not modem sharing in the typical sense of the word but proxy/socks/NAT software for sharing a PPP connection. Traditional modem sharing software allows multiple users to access modems on a network from traditional comm programs like qmodem or procomm, from online services, like AOL, Alpha Paging software, and fax software. Many of the socks/proxy servers do not require a modem at and can work as a gateway between two ethernet segements or some other for of mac/physical layer connection. BTW: wingate works quite nicely with @home cable modem..... Sean