What is Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)?
(Last updated: 08/01/2002) Back to top ICS is a “software router” of sorts made by Microsoft. If you’re running Windows 2000 or Windows XP, you can use ICS to make your PC act like a router. Other questions in this section cover how to set this up, but here’s the important thing to remember: If you use ICS with Xbox Live, you will have to keep your PC on at all times while playing, because it is working as your router. Might not be a big deal, just wanted you to understand. See also: 6.4 Basics: What is a hub? 6.5 Basics: What is a switch? 6.6 Basics: What is a router? 6.8 Basics: Where can I find a hub/switch/router? (Last updated: 08/22/2002) Back to top Any electronics store that sells computers will sell hubs, switches, and routers. Best Buy, CompUSA, Circuit City, Radio Shack, Fry’s – any of these is fine. If you go in and ask for a “networking hub”, a “networking switch”, or a “cable/DSL router”, the pimply-faced saleskid will show you where they are. (I was a pimply-faced salesk
