I bought a Microsoft MN-700 Wireless Base Station. Every computer except mine on the network is wireless. I had it hardwired to the base station. I didn't like being firewalled, so I went and bought a switch. My ISP gives me 5 IPs. So my plan was. Use one of those IPs for this comp. And the other, could get directed to the router to be divided by the Base Station. Well, yes, this did work. I am unfirewalled, and all the wireless folk are safe and protected and have internet. The trick is, I can't access any of the files on those computers anymore. It's as if were not part of the same workgroup anymore. Anways here's the setup. 1. Cable Modem goes to switch on "Uplink (port 5)" 2. Port 1 goes to my computer 3. Port 2 goes to the Base Station 4. Cable from port 2 goes to "Modem" port on Base Station. So, I have a feeling maybe something is not working because it's plugged into the "Modem" port. There's no "Uplink" port, so I figured that was it. But maybe not..? Should I make a crossover cable, and port it in "Port 1" of the base station. Would that work you think? Thanks, Bill

Actually, you are NOT on the same network. You have your own separate network now. The Base Station is a DHCP server with firewall and it forms a network behind it. As far as it is concerned, every thing on its WAN side is part of the public Internet, including you. Any system connected directly to the switch would be part of your local network. If you accesspoint router has a DMZ Zone, you could have placed your system IP in it and not been behind its firewall, but still share the IP address. You might be able to add a second NIC card and connect it to the accesspoint to get you access to that local network. Configuration could be problem as you would have to manually set up one for local network only and the other for TCP/IP access only.