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Old Feb 10, 2006 | 6:35 pm
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Originally Posted by bones123
You cannot use a crossover cable to use two computers on one internet connection. A crossover ethernet cable can be used to connect two isolated computers together to form a 2 computer LAN (eg, copy files, etc..).
Not completely true of course; if the PC has 2 ethernet cards and this will work just fine using Windows ICS.
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