Wired Internet from iMac to PC?

I have an iMac and a PC laptop (Windows XP) in the same office with only one Cat5 plug for internet from my cable modem in the basement. Is there a way to have both computers share the internet? Currently, I'm switching the cable from one computer to the other based on need.
Any thoughts are appreciated.

A product called (something like) a Fast Ethernet Hub, with multiple
ports to plug in the ethernet cable from the internet source, and
then the computer's ethernet cables would be plugged into that.
And this would work without messing with the other end of your
internet connection; the set up has to work and give you one
outside IP address, not one from each computer connection; so
your internet provider won't freak out and your network will work.
If you have one computer online and then use internet through it,
both would have to be on. An Apple Mac with built-in wireless,
can broadcast to another nearby computer and share its wired
internet connection; but of course it has to be on all the time, then.
Basic and simple networks include either Ethernet hubs and/or
wireless base stations; and that can be used in combination.
Since the Mac probably has built-in wireless 802.11/g/n/ etc; if
the other computer has that, then you could get and try a wireless
base station to share the single Ethernet output from the IP modem.
But a wired connection with physical hub that allows each computer
an independent connection to the internet modem source, would
allow each to have its own home-network address, as well as one
separate of the other computer that would read back to the provider.
So, the wired Ethernet hub is basic hardware and it should do the job.
And it should just work. I have a new one in a box never used, but I
have been using a few different wireless base stations and one of them
has a good pass-through port for wired ethernet hub as well as wireless.
And it could also support the wired Ethernet hub on the one outside port.
Of course, if you go wireless, you have to use wireless security protocols.
• Creating a small Ethernet network:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1433?viewlocale=en_US
In any case...
Good luck & happy computing!

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Hello,
I hope I'm not crazy, or even worse, stupid.
I an running two iMacs in my home office. Old one= 21" 2 Ghz PowerPC G5, purchased summer 2005 and still running like a champ. New one=27" 2.7 Ghz Intel i5. Purchased the new one July 2011. I have a cable modem plugged into the ethernet port on the old iMac. I've been accessing internet on new iMac with wifi and the internet sharing network I set up on old one. I also use wifi on my ipad and laptop. I have never had even a single dropped wifi connection on any of these devices.
I pretty much expected the same kind of result and performance when I reset the cable modem and plugged it into the new imac and took similiar steps to set up internet sharing/wifi network on new iMac. This has not been the case.
What's happening is:
The cable modem plugged to new iMac is working fine; verified with ISP. I set up wifi network on new iMac and turn on internet sharing. I locate my network name on ipad, laptop, even the old iMac, and I see the name in the list, so I figure so far so good. The signal icon appears in menu bar as usual. I open a web site to verify it's working. And it's working...for about 20 seconds. Then I get alert messages that there is no internet connection.
After creating a bunch of new networks and changing channels, changing type of security, even passwords, I realized I wasn't going to figure this out by myself. I'm not a technical person; Apple spoiled me and I stopped learning how to do anything except plug stuff in 20 years ago.
I started researching online including these discussion boards and answers have ranged from "It's the iMac! It's a hardware problem they never fixed! The aluminum case gets too hot!" to, "there's no airport card and you have to buy an external router." I gave up and called Apple, thinking surely they'd be able to give me a straight answer. Ha ha. Nope.
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I keep thinking this can't be that complicated. When I buy a new iMac--this is my 4th one--I expect things will get easier, not this complicated mess.
Oh, last I want to include I just reversed everything back to the way it was. My old iMac is connected to the cable modem and the old iMac is back to being my wifi network, sharing internet with the new imac, my ipad and laptop. Easy as pie.
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SuznK66 wrote:
It never occurred to me that the wireless network/internet sharing thing wouldn't work just as well if not better on a brand new machine with the improved technologies I pretty much expect. Metal could be interfering with the signal? The machine is aluminum!! I'm no engineer but that seems kind of...flawed. I just don't understand.
I think the WiFi antenna is near an edge of the computer to avoid being encased in metal. It should work like t did in your old computer, but as I said, the use of a Mac to share an internet signal is much less common than use of a router so even if the newer computers have a non-optimal design, it might not get widely noticed in forums like these.
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So i'm fairly new to the linux stuff, but for some reason I cannot get my wired internet (eth0) to work. Bear with me because I've got a decent tale to give to fill you in:
After successfully installing archlinux for the first time, I was able to get the internet and everything working, but my boot manager was messed up. So I got a friend to fix that problem for me and I started updating my system through pacman. After successfully updating and changing the pacman mirror files I started downloading/installing gnome (and gnome-extra). I left it overnight and when I woke up in the morning all hell broke loose. After rebooting my computer and logging back into arch I found a number of my bash commands no longer worked (ifconfig, iwconfig, halt, shudown, reboot, dhcpcd, just to name a few I remember) so I had to manually turn off my labtop. At that point I decided to reinstall linux.
After reinstalling linux my network troubles began and from that point on I can no longer connect to the pacman servers and my eth0 times out upon booting into linux every time (for those of you wondering, yes I did change in rc.conf the eth0="dhcp" like I was supposed to). I get a transient failure or something of the likes. The wierdest thing is this:
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Just for a few more backgrounds, I am installing arch64 on an intel core-duo processor with it dual-booting with windows vista ultimate. I don't think any of this is the problem considering I had it working once up a time, but now for some reason it doesn't work so i'm hoping for my wiser archlinux users to help me out.
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Last edited by evilviper77 (2008-04-12 18:27:18)

Well after many hours of toil, it seems that it has now decided to work. Still have no clue why my wired connection failed for that duration of time, but whatever. Archlinux is installed and running fine so I suppose all ends well.

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