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Living Room / Network peeps...? i need some help :(
« on: January 22, 2010, 11:42 PM »
setup:
XP laptop (using wireless EVDO card to connect to internet) as well as connected to the router via internal wireless
wireless router
2 other windows machines and ps3 connected to wireless router
i just need the other machines to connect to the internet thru the router.
first, i know there's a billion hits on google with this, mostly all with conflicting methods and opinions. but let me tell you my bit. at one time i had a normal setup. dsl modem plugged into wireless router, and all other machines could use the internet... simple, done! then that hard-wired service went down, so i turned on ICS (internet connection sharing) on my XP laptop with the EVDO card and once again it just worked! simple! great! the dsl service got flakey so i got rid of it and just used my shared laptop net access. time went on, kids moved out, etc. didn't use router for anything, didn't need to share a connection. fast-forward to today, and now i need to do the same thing. so i fired up the router, turned on ICS. all machines can see each other on the network... but no internet access! this has been bugging me for some time. i've turned off firewalls, etc to see if that was the problem, but no-go
i'm sure this is a simple setup as it 'just worked' before, but can't seem to make it work again. please help!
thanks
XP laptop (using wireless EVDO card to connect to internet) as well as connected to the router via internal wireless
wireless router
2 other windows machines and ps3 connected to wireless router
i just need the other machines to connect to the internet thru the router.
first, i know there's a billion hits on google with this, mostly all with conflicting methods and opinions. but let me tell you my bit. at one time i had a normal setup. dsl modem plugged into wireless router, and all other machines could use the internet... simple, done! then that hard-wired service went down, so i turned on ICS (internet connection sharing) on my XP laptop with the EVDO card and once again it just worked! simple! great! the dsl service got flakey so i got rid of it and just used my shared laptop net access. time went on, kids moved out, etc. didn't use router for anything, didn't need to share a connection. fast-forward to today, and now i need to do the same thing. so i fired up the router, turned on ICS. all machines can see each other on the network... but no internet access! this has been bugging me for some time. i've turned off firewalls, etc to see if that was the problem, but no-go
i'm sure this is a simple setup as it 'just worked' before, but can't seem to make it work again. please help!
thanks