how to make an ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) without a router.

Using ICS (Internet Connection Sharing)


In this articleHow does ICS work?

Enabling ICS

Configure TCP/IP

ICS and VPN connections

ICS and ad hoc networks



If you want to share one Internet connection among several computers, you have two options:



Use Internet Connection Sharing (ICS).



Use a router.



How does ICS work?

First, you'll need one computer, called the host computer, that's connected to the Internet and that has a separate connection to the other computers on your network. You'll enable ICS on the Internet connection. The other computers on your network then connect to the host computer, and from there to the Internet through the host computer's shared Internet connection.



A network using Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)



Enabling ICS

To enable ICS, on your host computer:



Click to open Network Connections.



Right-click the connection that you want to share, and then click Properties. If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.



Click the Sharing tab, and then select the Allow other network users to connect through this computer’s Internet connection check box.



Notes

The Sharing tab won't be available if you have only one network connection.



You can choose whether to select the Allow other network users to control or disable the shared Internet connection check box.



Optionally, to allow other network users to use services running on your network, click Settings, and then select the services you want to allow.



When you enable ICS, your local area network (LAN) connection gets a new static IP address and configuration, so you'll need to reestablish any TCP/IP connections between your host computer and the other network computers.



To test your network and Internet connection, see if you can share files between computers and make sure each computer can reach a website.



Configure TCP/IP

To use ICS, make sure the local area network (LAN) connection on each network computer is configured to get an IP address automatically. To do this:



Click to open Network Connections.



Right-click the LAN connection, and then click Properties. If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.



Click Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) or Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6), and then click Properties.



Click Obtain an IP address automatically or Obtain an IPv6 address automatically, and then click OK.



The Internet options on your network computers should also be configured for ICS. For more information, see Change Internet settings for ICS (Internet Connection Sharing).



Don't use ICS on a network with domain controllers, DNS servers, gateways, or DHCP servers. And don't use ICS on systems configured for static IP addresses.



ICS and VPN connections

If you create a virtual private network (VPN) connection on your host computer to a corporate network and then enable ICS on that connection, all Internet traffic is routed to the corporate network and all of the computers on your home network can access the corporate network. If you don't enable ICS on the VPN connection, other computers won't have access to the Internet or corporate network while the VPN connection is active on the host computer.



ICS and ad hoc networks

If you share your Internet connection on an ad hoc network, ICS will be disabled if:



You disconnect from the ad hoc network.



You create a new ad hoc network without disconnecting from the ad hoc network for which you enabled ICS.



You log off and then log back on (without disconnecting from the ad hoc network).

Disconnect unused network connections

Do you have alot of these on your Computer ?

Well you can shut these off as well if you do not use them.

Click Start, and then click My Computer.

On the Tools menu, click Disconnect Network Drive.

select the network drives that you no longer need, and then click OK

By Shutting these off this will speed up your system Due to when your Computer starts up it has to Connect to each one and load the drivers for each of these an in doing so it slows you PC down.

Defragment your hard disk drive

This Speeds your PC up after weeks or months of use Installing and or removing programs,

When The programs gets installed if places it all over the Hard Drive finding the first Empty place on it.

Sometimes, a newspaper article skips from the front page to somewhere in the middle of the paper. You have to stop reading the article and flip through the paper to find the page on which it continues. You could read the article much faster if it were printed on a single page.

Files on your computer can either be fragmented, like newspaper articles, or unfragmented, like a book. Over time, more and more files become fragmented. When a file is fragmented, it takes longer for the computer to read it because it has to skip to different sections of the hard disk drive—just like it takes you a few seconds to find a page in the middle of a newspaper.

 

So reading From a Fragmented file it would be going from page 1 to page 3 to page 2 and so on.

 
 

 
Reading from a Unfragmented File it goes in Assending order 1,2,3

 

To Defrag your Computer You can Go to Start>My Computer

Right Click then to Properties.

Click on the Tools Tab and in the Middle there should be  a DeFrag Button left Click it, and it will open a new windows and you can select the Hard Drive you want to Defrag if you have more then one.

Note: always Run Analyze Before Defrag.

Also See System Short Cuts  can use these Short cuts to find Internal programs that are hard to find.

How to set Default Programs in Visa and Windows 7

1) Click on start
2) On the right you should See Default Programs, If not you can Find it under Control Panel.
3) Click on what you want to set Default for Programs and how your CD/DVD's work.

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