Internet Connection Sharing

Maybe a thread which was already written, but not quite in that way:

My brother and me are using ICS. We both have Win XP SP1 and a DSL Internet Connection. He is dialed in and I'm doing FTP things over his ICS.
With the ICS I can do a lot of thing: www, IM (ICQ, AOL, MSN, ...), POP, SMTP, SSH, VPN, VNC,... Nearly everything.
But what I can not do, is using ftp as a fast "protocol". When I step through remote folders, it takes very long. And uploading a file of 3 MB takes hours, because the connection is being closed every minute and it takes a long time to reconnect.
So I heard of the new uPNP feature and was happy, but nothing changed. I tried passive mode, active mode. Nothing really happens. The same problem I got with every FTP client (CuteFTP, Dreamweaver XM, etc...)

Could this problem be solved? By SmartFTP? By the settings of the ICS (there are not really any settings...)?

Please help. Thanks

I have never found that ICS works properly. It sort of works. What I would suggest you do is buy an ADSL router (or cable modem router). Then you can connect up your computers directly to the Enthernet ports on the router, and your router directly to you ADSL modem.

The bandwidth you have allocated will be shared between the connections and is considerably faster than ICS. In fact, neither computer will ever know there is another one connected via the same ADSL modem and both will appear to have a dedicated connection. On top of that, it's easy to set up. You literally just plug in your ADSL modem into the ADSL router, and then your 2 computers into the router. That's it, happy surfing.

Yes, at this point u are right. Just buying a router.
But as I just come over to my brother's house, when I don't need to study, I don't know I it's worth paying that money for a fews days in the year.