I have two computers at home. They both have WinXP installed. One has a NIC card ( connected to an ADSL modem ). It also has a wireless NIC card. This machine can access the Internet. Let's say it is Machine A. The other machine has a wireless NIC card. Let's say it is Machine B. A and B are directly connected to each other through these two wireless NIC cards ( using ad-hoc mode ). There is no hub, switch or router involved. My question is: If I want B to be able to access Internet through A, Can I only use Microsoft's Internet connection sharing ? Can I use any other method or software ? And if I do use Microsoft's Internet connection sharing, Why can I only use DHCP for B's wireless card ? Why can't I use static IP for it ? Thanks.

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Tim, Yes, I think you can use a proxy server. This basically runs on Computer A and opens a port on the wireless network which Computer B connects through. You just make sure the proxy server is always running and the second computer will always be able to get on the Internet. By far the simplest proxy server I can find is AnalogX Proxy. On that page, it describes a scenario similar to yours: where you want to share the Internet connection between another computer or multiple other computers. Simply download, install and run that program and then point the web browser on Computer B towards. I think you should be able to assign a static IP address to both machines. I recommend you set Computer A to have the static IP address of 192.168.0.1 and Computer B to have the static IP address of 192.168.0.2. Additionaly, unbind the File and Printer Sharing from the TCP/IP protocol in the network properties. This will stop malicious hackers from trying to access your shares (which are all to easy to get).

do a google search on 'network two computers', both on this site and on the net in general. you will find a lot of info that tells you what to do to get this working. there have been many posting on this site with info sites listed. good luck, Al