Problem Connecting to the Internet from Win 2000 Pro Computer to Windows XP computer

[pdnts...@yahoo.com]

I have a Windows 2000 pro commuter with 20 gigs of hard drive space 56
megs of RAM and a Network card...connected to a Windows XP Pro
computer with 40 gigs of hard drive space and about 128 megs of
RAM...I can see the Windows 2000 computer by a cross-over Ethernet
cable but not visa versa ...when I do netstat on the Windows 2000 Pro
computer it doesn't show any connection. I'm about to give this Win
2k computer away to somebody and want to know if they have a paid
Internet service like Road Runner or Road Runner Lite would they be
able to get the Windows 2000 Pro computer online with it???

Thanks for any informative response.

[Lou Ravi]

No reason why not, the Internet doesn't need much power, it's the line
speed that decides.

For your XP, are you sure there is only 128 mega on it? 256m has always
seemed an absolute minimuim and I mean minimum, even with that it is
very slow, with 128 you could probably make a cup of tea before a folder
opens after you've clicked on ti.