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?

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.

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.

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.

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?