Hi, I have 2 NICs, I'm wondering is it possible to connect my modem to my pc,(NIC#1) then NIC#2 to wireless Router. then to other pcs that i have. i dont' want to connect the modem to the router directly because i don't want my host pc to be connected to router directly. is it possible to utilise both my NICs this way?

This will work providing you don't want the computers that connect to the wireless router to have Internet access. If that is the objective then fine. If you want the computers connected to the wireless router to have Internet access then you will need to bridge the two NIC, in which case you might as well connect the modem to the router and use the router in the way it was meant to be used. Either way the host PC is still connected to the router. Stuart

yes i want pcs connected to the wireless router to have internet through my pc as host not my router and how do i bridge the 2 NICs together, i want to make it only as the NIC#2 from host pc to router's wan port. how is it possible.?

>>internet through my pc as host not my router << I have to ask why. You are storing up a whole raft of problems for yourself. To do what you want to do you will have to install Internet Connection Sharing on a PC. This makes the PC behave like a router. This is a software solution for something that is supposed to be done in hardware. I have never configured Windows in this way before because when there is a router available, using Internet Connection sharing doesn't make sense. Internet Connection Sharing is not very reliable at the best of times and allied to that the other computers are using wireless which is also less than 100% reliable. When trouble-shooting no Internet access to are going to have one hell of a time working out where the problem is. To run a setup like this you really need Linux which has software that can handle this or in the case of Windows, Windows 2003 Server. Windows XP pro was not really designed for setups like this although with some persuasion it can be made to work. Stuart