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Internet sharing on Vista pc's

Original Message
Name: daveyboy99
Date: August 11, 2007 at 12:16:29 Pacific
Subject: Internet sharing on Vista pc's
OS: Vista Ultimate 32bit
CPU/Ram: Core2 Duo 6600
Comment:
Now this might seem stupid, but it's happening.
I have a pc connected to the net via a wireless router (in another building) and a wired LAN hub connecting the rest of my machines locally.
The internet works fine (auto settings giving 192.168.1.100 via 192.168.1.1 and 255.255.255.0 subnet) and my LAN works fine (auto settings giving 169.254.169.139 on 255.255.0.0 subnet).
BUT...turning on the internet connection sharing links the two connections and re-allocates the wireless to 192.168.0.1 cutting me off from the world!
My understanding was that the LAN would be re-allocated and it all would work wonderfully.
Manual re-allocation just separates the LAN from the wireless again.
Any ideas anyone?

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Response Number 1
Name: mountain
Date: August 11, 2007 at 15:29:50 Pacific
Subject: Internet sharing on Vista pc's
Reply: (edit)
wireless conection is setup with the ssid and is separate from the wired lan.
i never use internet sharing
ethernet cable is into the wan port on the router, router is configured for the ssid wireless connection, any computers accessing wirelessly will need the ssid workgroup configured also.

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Response Number 2
Name: daveyboy99
Date: August 11, 2007 at 20:06:09 Pacific
Subject: Internet sharing on Vista pc's
Reply: (edit)
No problem if I had a cable to the router. It's in another building. Too far to run 4 cables. I have a 2 meter antenna to pick up the signal. Can't have 4 of those.
There must be a way. It's no problem in XP. XP tells the hub what to give out and Windows tells you what to set up.
Can't believe Vista is actually worse.

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Response Number 3
Name: jefro
Date: August 12, 2007 at 13:26:43 Pacific
Subject: Internet sharing on Vista pc's
Reply: (edit)
ICS does that. Try analogx's proxy application instead or another that allows any ip.

By the way the 169.254.x.x is a APIPA and is normally used when a router goes down. It is meant to allow workgoups to continue. (whicn oddly enough in a domain where one would find a router they would most likely deny workstations to share folders)

I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.


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Response Number 4
Name: daveyboy99
Date: August 19, 2007 at 08:15:00 Pacific
Subject: Internet sharing on Vista pc's
Reply: (edit)
Thanks,
I've tried Analogx's Proxy and that works to a certain extent, BUT all my web pages attach to the first! That is, Google "network" for example, then click a link and it looks for that page under google.com. It doesn't look for the web site, just the page. Very strange.
Is there a setting within the program to fix this? Or even another free proxy server program that is any good?

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