I cannot stop thinking about a problem that I was working on yesterday at a clients. Essentially they already have a P2P small business network and I have setup a standalone (DSL) Internet PC - Internet Lake Simcoe (Canada). They now want one other PC (on the existing network) running XP to have access to this high speed service. I tried my (Dlink Extreme G) router and wireless PCI card and was unable to get this new unit to connect to my router (Cordless Phone) so decided to run a Cat 5 cable instead. I then installed a 2nd NIC on this PC to connect the cable to. When I type in the gateway IP (192.168.0.1) in this PCs browser I can get to the Router Menu so IE6 is working OK but I cannot seem to get to the outside world with any regular www addresses. The existing P2P NIC has a static address and the new NIC has been left with it's default DHCP settings. Do you think that this is some kind of DNS issue, is there a problem trying to run 2 NICs in one XP system (and can their Internet streams be isolated i.e seperated) or do both NICS have to be set to the same static IP address (can this be done?) I should have tried my own laptop on this new NIC cable connection but unfortunately neglected to do so. I was rather "Snow Blind" after spending 5 hours on this issue yesterday. Any help would be appreciated as I have to get them up and running ASAP today. Thanks again You ain't smokin' if you ain't 2 strokin'

The solution is to share the broadband nic connection. Under network connections, make right click on the broadband connection (DSL) then properties. In the tab advanced, just enablethe option to share the connection.

As the DSL modem has already been configured (by the ISP) to automatically connect to the ISP surely this modem/router combination unit should share the Internet by default ? The PC that is directly connected to the DSL modem/router is running Win98 - can internet connection sharing be enabled with 98 ? Thanks again. Mick You ain't smokin' if you ain't 2 strokin'