Internet connection sharing / networking clash

[Jasonchatham]

Hi all .....

2 Windows XP Home machines

PC1 - Belkin PCI network card installed
Connected to Belkin 54g wireless access point with RJ45 cable.
Also connected to this PC is my USB ADSL modem.

PC2 - Belkin 54g wireless network card.

PC1 connects to the internet and downloads email OK.
The network card obtains IP automatically.

When I enable Internet connection sharing and the network card has the static IP adress of 192.168.0.1 and 255.255.255.0 subnet mask. I can no longer download web pages or receive email from the pop3 servers.The dial up connection works and verifies my username and password.

The wireless side of things works fine with pinging no problem. Running the internet connection sharing wizard I was able to browse web pages on PC2 but not PC1.

Is just TCP/IP used for both devices on PC1 correct or should I be enabling another protocol to allow them to talk ?

Does the fact my ADSL modem use a different sub net when its connected help or complicate things?

At wits end spent a whole day trying out different things.
Belkin were useless at helping.

Regards to all

Jason

 

[bcastner]

Add a switch.
AP to switch
PC1 to switch

Then setup internet connection sharing again.

 

[Jasonchatham]

bcastner

help me out here a bit

add a switch ? - what sort
AP to switch - whats AP
PC1 to switch - connect the PC1 to the switch !

sorry, not used to the tech side of things.

Jason

 

[franklin97355]

When you open the network connections on pc1 do you have two connections? should have a connection to your isp on one and the acces point (AP) on the other.

 

[bcastner]

It will not work this way, as the Access Point (AP) is not a bridge but an network endpoint as far as the ICS host is concerned.

Any 10/100 switch will do. A Belkin or SMC or Linksys 5-port switch is about $10 locally. The AP (Access Point) would then be given a static IP of say 192.168.0.254, subnet 255.255.255.0, Gateway 192.168.0.1. The wireless clients would pull DHCP IPs from the ICS Host.

 

[Jasonchatham]

bcastner

The 2000 issue solved !
Back to this old chestnut ...

The setup is as Belkins own network wizard.
plus I spoke to belkin tech support (got to 2nd level!) and they didnt recommend this.

will the XP bridge make it work !

Jason

 

[bcastner]

There is nothing to bridge.

Try configuring the Belkin AP to have a static IP of 192.168.0.254, subnet 255.255.255.0, Gateway 192.168.0.1.
Disable DHCP if it is a feature of the AP.

Reset everything, and do an Ipconfig /all on the wireless workstation and post it here.