Sygate firewall and port forwarding

adrian · Joined: 25 Oct 2006 Posts: 4

I have trouble with sharing an email client over LAN. My friends and I made a home network between our computers. The whole idea was to share one DSL connection for using the Internet. Because of its speed, it can satisfy all our needs and we would spend less money each. However, that is not working. Is my Sygate firewall making those troubles?

oren · Joined: 29 Nov 2007 Posts: 25

There are few different ways for Internet connection sharing. You can do that by using hardware or software equipment. The thing you should do is called port forwarding. If you want to do that with software emulation, you must have some bigger experience. I assume that you don't so let us get back to the hardware solution. To do port forwarding you will need a special device called router. When you connect your network on router, you will not have any further problems with accessing the Internet over cable. The other thing you can do is to connect one computer to DSL and share its connection to everybody else. That way it will work as a gateway but it should always be turned on. Sygate personal firewall won't make any troubles but you will have to set it up.

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