I don't know if anyone here can help me or has any experience on this but it's worth a try:My situation is that there are 2 computers in the house and there are times when both users wish to be online at the same time.
We only have a dial up connection but when sharing occurs, much of the time spent will be reading threads, posting replies etc or on ICQ so I don't see lack of bandwidth being a problem.
Not having the luxury of a permanent conncetion and using the only phone line in the house, I would like to keep the option of each computer operating independently and dialing up it's own connection availible. This approach seems to me (I am new at this) to poin me to using something called NATS rather than a conventional proxy server which involves setting up individual applications with specific settings.
I have a working TCP/IP network.
Paltalk seems to be my biggest problem as I have yet to find any software that works without the need of a lot of configuration.
Here are the problems I have ran across so far:
FatPipe - seems to work fine on all applications except Paltalk but with Fatpipe installed, there seems to be nothing I can do to get sound on Paltalk - perhaps I can load windows without network support when I wan't to use this and Paltalk will work?
Wingate - ENS which uses NAT runs out of memory using 4.0. Their beta version of 5.0 does not have this problem but there is no Win 95 support and one of the PCs runs that OS and I'd rather not change (P200 - 32MB ram -how would '98 do?). I have managd to get it running with a version 5.0 server and a 4.0 client but I get a lot of problems trying to use ENS - not sure if it is incompatibility with the versions or other problems.
WinProxy. I installed it but I got scared when it wanted to change some setting that indicated that TCP/IP was set to dial up on some activity and wanted to automatically change settings as it conflicted with it's own operation - great but how or where do I change it back if this program doesn't meet my needs and I have to change back?
Anyway, that is as far as I have got and I am tearing my hair out here! Has anyone got any advice, answers to my problems or positive feedback on software that they are using?
Thanks,
Jon