I have a cable modem that connects me to the internet. I am planing to buy a hub in order to connect 3 computers together and share the internet connection.I know that an easy way was to create a network with BNC cables, but two of the computers are laptops and their PCMCIA cards take only UTP cables.
So i planned the network as follows:
 
One computer (preferably the desktop) will be connected to the cable modem (and hence the internet) with the USB interface of the modem. This computer will have the IP address that the provider is giving me plus the gateway address of the provider as well. This computer will connect to the main socket of the hub and the other two computers will connect to the available ports on the hub. Now there is the tricky part where i am not sure.I'm thinking to configure the other two machines addresses as follows: both will have automatic IP assigned to them (dynamic) and they will have as default gateway the IP of the first machine(that's the desktop machine connected to the cable modem with the provider's IP).
 
Do you think that my design will work?Any better and easier suggestions?
Thanks for your time reading this.