Hi,

I bought a new laptop for christmas and decided to get a wireless belkin usb network adaptor for my pc and the Belkin wireless notebook network card for the laptop.

Both have windows XP home. So...I installed them both and set up my ad-hoc network. So far so good. The two systems could see each other and the signal was around 60%.
So I thought now that thats done, I'll set up ICS.

MAJOR PROBLEMS begin here
I have a speedtouch 530 usb modem with BT Broadband, and thats Local area connection 2 on my Desktop, and now I also have wireless network connection 2 on my desktop whick is the belkin. So i go into local area connection 2 and enable ICS, and in the dropdown menu I select Wireless network connection 2. So far i think this is correct, obviously not. Then, I go onto the laptop to see what has happened and nothing has changed, so i run the network connection wizard on the laptop, and select that I want it to connect through the wireless conection to my desktop and it all sets up. Nothing changes apart from on the desktop local area connection 2 now has enabled,shared by it. so i decided 2 run the network setup wizard on the desktop, I call the network group NETWORK, and set it up, telling the wizard that the connection to the internet is through network connection 2 and that the connection to the rest of my computers (the laptop) is through wireless network connection 2. RIGHT that worked. I ran the wizard on my laptop reading it all and doing what it said. I called the network group NETWORK on that and it configured all the settings. NOTHING HAPPENED as far as I can see anyway. I keep running the 2 wizards and have been playing around with manual configuration, no luck. Its just too frustrating and not what I want to be doing in the new year. I just hope someone has had the same trouble. = [

Well I suppose you are making a trouble out of a problem. Well definately your network infrastructure might be problematic.
see, do not use network setup wizard. Do everything manually. I tell you how. You name each computer differently. They both as you know should be using the same workgroup to be able to communicate. Now it's the time to get into ICS stuff.
As soon as you turn the ICS on, the local area connection will get a static IP of 192.168.0.1 and Mask of 255.255.255.0 with the DNS of the local computer (192.168.0.1). Now, the other computer should have the same IP range. For example 192.168.0.2 . Now that you set everything up for ICS, your WAN card (I believe it was Local connection 2, your Internet connection). Now that should be using DHCP not static addressing. If you set everything up correctly, then everything should work out perfectly after a restart.
Also, in case you might not be sure, you should enable the ICS on your WAN connection, not LAN connection.

Please feel free to contact me for any further assistance you might need,

Cheers!

Alireza

I think Ive found the problem. I enable sharing on my adsl connection so that it gets shared with my wireless connection right. The Ip of the wireless then changes to 192.168.0.1 with 255.255.255.0, but on my laptop the wireless network IP is 169.254.*.*** with 255.255.0.0

Is that the problem??