Does XP mind sharing a LAN internet connection across two Ethernet cards?<P>I have LAN internet here, but it's DHCP so I can't use my Cisco 772M as a hub to put my laptop and desktop on the same port.

Ethernet ports are usually just relegated to connecting computers to routers to facilitate an internet connection, but they're capable of much more than that.

The IEEE 802.3 standards exist to ensure interoperability between Ethernet devices. But what happens when different interpretations of the standards leads to interoperability issues between networks ...

Your router might be the real bottleneck, not your internet plan.