Talk:Internet Connection Sharing

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Can someone please add some ideas on how to setup bandwidth limiting within the I.C.S service in Windows XP?

I have found some utilities online however, I'm wondering if there is an official method or something else well known, that I can find reliable?

Can i re-share the internet connections with the sub-network PCs with ip address 192.168.0.1 on my PC which i connect to internet through shared network by else IP address such as "59.10.168.11"? Hyungjin Ahn 06:34, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You want to share a connection (internet->computer->internal network) or share a shared connection (internet->computer->internal network(computer in internal network->another internal network))? In first case, it is exactly what this article is about. In second case, it might work as it is, if it does not work, you might try changing internal subnet's addresses (it will lose DHCP, though and addresses will have to be set manually). -Yyy 10:00, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There isn't much to add to this article, which is currently categorized as a stub. It could just be described on a list of features of Microsoft Windows. --Afed 14:16, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't want read whole history and detail about windows just to find out ICS, it should remain indipendent.

@previous post —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Master037 (talk • contribs) 05:15, 23 April 2007 (UTC). ICS is not meant to be used profesionaly, only for fast setup and sharing internet connection to users. For what you need you can use CCProxy which has very good limiting options by ip or by mac address.[reply]

ICS is a seperate subject. And when looking for what ICS is people should not end up in Windows OS article. We don't want to make w 100 pages Windows OS article containg detailed description of all Windows features, do we? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.14.226.83 (talk) 13:57, 26 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Although its a stub, it can be expanded. This is a distinct network topic, there's no question of it being merged with a general article on Windows. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 221.128.181.107 (talk) 19:16, 13 May 2007 (UTC).[reply]

"The service is also not customizable in terms of which addresses are used for the internal subnet," and "The server will always have the IP address 192.168.0.1 and will provide NAT services to the whole 192.168.0.x subnet, even if the address on the client was set manually, not by the DHCP server." is not quite true, at least on windows xp. Local network addresses can be manually set to other subnet, doing so will just disable ICS's DHCP server (in such case there appears record in system log). NAT will work fine for any internal subnet. It is specified per HW interface, not IP address. -Yyy 09:54, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

the Windows XP Bug paragraph is very useful - such info can take hours to find on the MS web-site - please do keep. And anyone who knows more please elaborate. Muzzah (talk) 00:49, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

But wikipedia isn't a technical troubleshooting guide (as far as I know...) - specific advice on how to work around bugs in ICS might be best moved to some other site?

Besides, the "just disable IPv6 to solve all your problems" advice is harmful. 82.130.16.18 (talk) 11:15, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please do keep the information about the Knowledgebase, it is relevant even if not for the troubleshooting value (however, for the record let me stress that it was very valuable!). From a documentation perspective it is important to have this information so one can judge what kinds of problems are associated with this system. It gives a better perspective about the overall adequacy of the product. For example someone might decide to use this (or not), if they are on a newer operating system. Mmkaram (talk) 16:40, 20 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I know that this might be considered against WP:OR policy, but since the sources are most probably available and since it's quite relevant/important fact; should we also mention the "hosts.ics" file (residing under "%WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc\" directory) that's created on a gateway computer when ICS is enabled?

As we all know it contains the IPs of both, the gateway and the host computer. Here is an example of the contents of the mentioned file on one of my computer (i.e. the gateway) which contains the following two lines:

192.168.0.1 D32K5JC2.mshome.net # 2016 1 4 14 1 33 48 781
192.168.0.153 Desktop.mshome.net # 2011 1 6 22 1 33 48 781

Any response will be greatly appreciated. --Wayfarer (talk) 01:08, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've read the whole article thoroughly and I don't see any mention of the fact on which OSI/ISO layer does ICS work. I personally think that this is quite an important information! --Wayfarer (talk) 01:14, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I glanced the entire article. No info on how to access an ics file which is linked to an email I received.1archie99 (talk) 16:52, 27 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

An ICS file most likely has zero to do with Internet Connection Sharing but something else such as iCalendar so it's not surprising nothing is mentioned here. I'm not even sure why you're reading this article as from what I can tell ICS existed as a disambig page [1] then and Ics linked to there [2]. Nil Einne (talk) 13:00, 9 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]