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Maureen Smith

I've been lurking for a bit, and have Googled until my eyes are goggled but
can't seem to put this together.

Two computers at home, both Dells. One XP Pro, one W98. Both have 10/100
network cards.

Son has Xbox Live. We're using a LinkSys Wireless adapter, WGA11B. We have a
LinkSys Access Point, BEFW11S4. Both computers are plugged in using
Ethernet. The Xbox is the only thing running wireless.

I can't figure out how to make this all work together! I had worked in an
office where all computers accessed the network (company intranet and the
internet) wirelessly, and I thought this would be easy. The Xbox introduces
something that I don't know my way around.

I'd like to be able to have both computers share the internet connection,
and I'd like the Xbox Live connection to live with this, too. Because of
bandwidth issues, I haven't been able to have either computer share the
internet while the Xbox is online. The ideal would be for everything to
share, but I'd be happy to have a network that allowed internet connectivity
on the two Dells.

Any suggestions? I feel I'm a bit over my head.
 
How do you access the Internet?, e.g., cable, DSL modem etc., and what is
the speed of the connection??
 
Jonah - we connect via cable modem. Per ISP website, 1.5 Mb downstream and
256 Kb up.

I'd like to have more bandwidth, but it's not in the budget right now.
 
call them, 1-800-4MYXBOX
they will do wonders, especialy if you get the guy who speeks english,
the other guy is really hard to understand
 
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