hey me and my buddy have our two computers hooked up with a crossover cable i have got both computers to see one another on the network and tranfer files and he has internet through his t-mobile cell phone and we are trying to get both computers to connect to the internet through the crossover so both computers can be online i've gone through most of the settings i know about but i can only get on computer to access the net the cell phone is hooked up through a usb any setting ideas or any ideas to help fix this so they both can be online would be cool i know there's a way but i havn't figured it out yet please help

Punctuation and paragraphs would be nice.

use static IP addresses. the computer connecting to t-mobile should have these settings: IP: 192.168.0.1 Subnet: 255.255.255.0 the other computer should have the following settings: IP: 192.168.0.2 subnet: 255.255.255.0 gateway: 192.168.0.1 preferred DNS server: 192.168.0.1

Ok I just tried the ip setup and it did not work. Both machines are running xp pro and sorry about the second post.

Install and Configure Internet Connection Sharing on the computer that has the mobile phone connected. Then set the other computer to obtain IP address automatically. Internet Connection Sharing will then act as a bridge between the Mobile phone on the USB connection and the Ethernet connection behaving in a similar way to a router, but in software instead of hardware. Stuart

yep, forgot to mention that ICS/Windows Firewall must be enabled and the t-mobile connection needed to be shared ... my bad.