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Keith Ginger

Hi,

I am having great difficulty connecting XP - XP, for the Internet, using ICS.

Let me explain, I had XP - Win98 connected, no problem, then upgraded my partners' PC and it came with XP (Dell as well, sorry)!

I have two Ethernet cards and a crossover cable, but feel that it is not a hardware problem.

I've been up many times, connected, and running hunky dory, but then, I close down out of sequence, or whatever, and lose everything.

But every time I get connected and then disconnected the LAN number increases by one. Also should both PCs have the same LAN number? Confused? I am!

No joy for a week. I now cannot connect for love or money, taken both cards out, swapped them, swapped them back, to no avail.

I am desperate, and under pressure!

Help, please.

Thanks,

Keith.
 
i don't understand the part about your lan number increasing by one; what lan number are you referring to?
Hi,

I am having great difficulty connecting XP - XP, for the Internet, using ICS.

Let me explain, I had XP - Win98 connected, no problem, then upgraded my partners' PC and it came with XP (Dell as well, sorry)!

I have two Ethernet cards and a crossover cable, but feel that it is not a hardware problem.

I've been up many times, connected, and running hunky dory, but then, I close down out of sequence, or whatever, and lose everything.

But every time I get connected and then disconnected the LAN number increases by one. Also should both PCs have the same LAN number? Confused? I am!

No joy for a week. I now cannot connect for love or money, taken both cards out, swapped them, swapped them back, to no avail.

I am desperate, and under pressure!

Help, please.

Thanks,

Keith.
 
Hey Keith,

I've always hated using ICS. I think that the most painless thing for
you to do is to buy a cheap router. Why spend hours messing with ICS
when for just over $20, you can buy a router (newegg.com has one I
know). Also, within the router, you get the added security of a
hardware firewall.

Just plug the routers WAN port into the internet cat-5 cable and set
your computers for DHCP and you're pretty much set.

Good luck. I hope this helps.

Matt

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Are you sure you followed the instructions to set up ics correctly? With both network cards installed and the crossover cable attached start both compters. Turn on the XP firewall and uninstall any third party firewall from both computers before you start as they can cause problems and need setting up seperately. I say uninstall as even turning them off can leave componants running which can intefere with ICS. On the computer which has the modem attached run the network set up wizard, turning on file and printer sharing. Wait till its finished then run it on the other computer. After its finished on the second computer go back to the first computer and open the network connections folder. You should see your network cad listerd and your modem. Left click the local area connection under your network card heading and look in the left hand pane where it says details. Have a look at your LAN IP number it should be 192.168.0.1 and the subnetmask 255.255.255.0 and it will say manually configured this is normal. The second computer if you look will have a IP number selected by DHCP and the subnet mask should be the same 255.255.255.0 as the first computer.

I have used ICS succesfully and the only problems I have had have been with third party firewalls even ones which are supposed to work with ICS like zonealarm pro and sygate. If you follow what I have written including uninstalling any firewalls (turn on XPs built in firewall) you should get ICS working. Repost what resaults you get but please follow my instructions. I have written them from memory but am sure it contains the important details.

Glen


Hi,

I am having great difficulty connecting XP - XP, for the Internet, using ICS.

Let me explain, I had XP - Win98 connected, no problem, then upgraded my partners' PC and it came with XP (Dell as well, sorry)!

I have two Ethernet cards and a crossover cable, but feel that it is not a hardware problem.

I've been up many times, connected, and running hunky dory, but then, I close down out of sequence, or whatever, and lose everything.

But every time I get connected and then disconnected the LAN number increases by one. Also should both PCs have the same LAN number? Confused? I am!

No joy for a week. I now cannot connect for love or money, taken both cards out, swapped them, swapped them back, to no avail.

I am desperate, and under pressure!

Help, please.

Thanks,

Keith.
 
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