Just to add to the article Scotterpops pointed you to. If you wish to connect directly into the hub you'll want to buy one that's made specifically for this as they have security features not available in your average active hub. I know Linksys makes the type of hub you'ld want, look on their site for information regarding a cablemodem hub. It should have a built in proxy as well as firewall. They are rather pricey. If you'ld like to save a little money, buy a regular hub and a second NIC for your computer and use yours to serve the internet out to hers and any others you may have. I highly recommend Sygate, they make a good proxy server software and their homenetwork product also has a firewall. However, I don't know how high that firewall rates. I do know that Zonealarm makes a very good firewall. For a LAN the professional version is easier to use.

On Sun, 10 Jun, 2001 - 19:44, Jimi wrote:
>I have a USB cable modem. I have just acquired a second computer for my wife and
>want to network them. Would it be possible to hook the modem to a hub and then plub
>the hub into each PC? If nto what is the easiest way to network them?

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