Enabling Multiple Macs to Use a Single Internet Account
One of the primary advantages of networking computers together is that they can share a single Internet account. This is especially useful for broadband accounts; however, you can share a dial-up connection too.
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Dial-up accounts are relatively slow. Supplying several computers through slow access will divide that limited bandwidth and make access even slower.
And you can share a single Internet account on mixed networks that include both Macintosh and Windows computers.
Most means of sharing an Internet account rely on the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). This protocol enables IP addresses to be dynamically assigned to each device on a network. A DHCP server assigns and ...
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