Help setting up a home connection

Hi,

I have two computers: one with WinXPPro and one with WinXPHome. The XPPro
machine is connected to a cable modem and a linksys router that connects to the
XPHome machine. The hardware appears to be working: I can connect to the
net through my host machine and I can see the orange flickering (presumably
data) on the cord connected to the other machine. But I cannot ping the other
computer. And I when I try ICS it says it cannot complete the network setup.
I've tried manual setup, and have been having problems there as well. Does
anyone have any suggestions.

-Stu

http://www.ezlan.net/

mike

"Stugrad98" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> I have two computers: one with WinXPPro and one with WinXPHome. The
XPPro
> machine is connected to a cable modem and a linksys router that connects
to the
> XPHome machine. The hardware appears to be working: I can connect to
the
> net through my host machine and I can see the orange flickering
(presumably
> data) on the cord connected to the other machine. But I cannot ping the
other
> computer. And I when I try ICS it says it cannot complete the network
setup.
> I've tried manual setup, and have been having problems there as well.
Does
> anyone have any suggestions.
>
> -Stu

The pictures on this page aren't coming up and I've tried many of the things
they suggest. Let me add something that may help you figure out what my
problem is:

I have two connections (as most do) on my host computer. One is the high
speed 1394 connection, the other is the LAN connection. When I hit the 1394
and attempt to change the properties to allow network users to connect through
the host's internet connection, suddenly my host computer stops connecting to
the Net. When I set it back and disallow others from using the connection,
then the host computer connects fine. Any ideas?

-Stu

"Stugrad98" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> The pictures on this page aren't coming up and I've tried many of the
> things
> they suggest. Let me add something that may help you figure out what my
> problem is:
>
> I have two connections (as most do) on my host computer. One is the high
> speed 1394 connection, the other is the LAN connection. When I hit the
> 1394
> and attempt to change the properties to allow network users to connect
> through
> the host's internet connection, suddenly my host computer stops connecting
> to
> the Net. When I set it back and disallow others from using the
> connection,
> then the host computer connects fine. Any ideas?
>
> -Stu

1394 is a firewire connection and probably not the one you are using for the
LAN.

Therefore you should be concentrating on the LAN connection.

Can you be a bit more specific how you have set things up? If you are using
a router, you shouldn't need ICS.

Modem should connect to router and then the two PC's should connect to
router.

Which one is your host machine? The Modem/router router should be the
"host" and "route" the internet to the two PC's.

> I have two connections (as most do) on my host computer. One is the high
> speed 1394 connection, the other is the LAN connection. When I hit the
> 1394 and attempt to change the properties to allow network users to
> connect through the host's internet connection, suddenly my host computer
> stops connecting to the Net. When I set it back and disallow others
> from using the connection, then the host computer connects fine. Any
> ideas?
>
> -Stu

1394 is a Firewire connection ( not that common on deskyop pc's) and is
not used for networking.

Dave

--

Some people use windows, others have a life.

On 26 Dec 2004 00:56:48 GMT, (E-Mail Removed) (Stugrad98) wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have two computers: one with WinXPPro and one with WinXPHome. The XPPro
>machine is connected to a cable modem and a linksys router that connects to the
>XPHome machine. The hardware appears to be working: I can connect to the
>net through my host machine and I can see the orange flickering (presumably
>data) on the cord connected to the other machine. But I cannot ping the other
>computer. And I when I try ICS it says it cannot complete the network setup.
>I've tried manual setup, and have been having problems there as well. Does
>anyone have any suggestions.

Do I understand you ok, to the best of my knowledge (I've got an ADSL
modem) the cable modem should go in to the router and then both
machines should be connected to the router.

The router is effectively the 'host machine', your two computers have
no priority over each other and windows ICS does not need enabling as
it is the router that does the work.

Geoff Lane

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, "Dave
Stanton" (E-Mail Removed) says...
>
> > I have two connections (as most do) on my host computer. One is the high
> > speed 1394 connection, the other is the LAN connection. When I hit the
> > 1394 and attempt to change the properties to allow network users to
> > connect through the host's internet connection, suddenly my host computer
> > stops connecting to the Net. When I set it back and disallow others
> > from using the connection, then the host computer connects fine. Any
> > ideas?
>
> 1394 is a Firewire connection ( not that common on deskyop pc's) and is
> not used for networking.
>
Firewire is common on new desktop PCs, and can easily be used for
networking over short distances.

>> 1394 is a Firewire connection ( not that common on deskyop pc's) and is
>> not used for networking.
>>
> Firewire is common on new desktop PCs, and can easily be used for
> networking over short distances.

When ethernet has been around for years, works and is understood, yeah ok.

Dave
--

Some people use windows, others have a life.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, "Dave
Stanton" (E-Mail Removed) says...
>
> >> 1394 is a Firewire connection ( not that common on deskyop pc's) and is
> >> not used for networking.
> >>
> > Firewire is common on new desktop PCs, and can easily be used for
> > networking over short distances.
>
> When ethernet has been around for years, works and is understood, yeah ok.
>
I didn't say ethernet was not the preferred way of doing it, just
pointed out that it's easy to do with firewire over short distances.
Your assertion that 1394 isn't used for networking was simply
incorrect. If the OP was considering a serial, parallel or even USB
connection then it's a no-brainer to recommend ethernet instead
(unless he was only transferring small amounts of data on an
occasional basis), but 1394 is fast, easy to set up (under XP) and
doesn't need a special cable.

Geoff Lane wrote:
> On 26 Dec 2004 00:56:48 GMT, (E-Mail Removed) (Stugrad98) wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have two computers: one with WinXPPro and one with WinXPHome. The XPPro
>>machine is connected to a cable modem and a linksys router that connects to the
>>XPHome machine. The hardware appears to be working: I can connect to the
>>net through my host machine and I can see the orange flickering (presumably
>>data) on the cord connected to the other machine. But I cannot ping the other
>>computer. And I when I try ICS it says it cannot complete the network setup.
>>I've tried manual setup, and have been having problems there as well. Does
>>anyone have any suggestions.
>
>
> Do I understand you ok, to the best of my knowledge (I've got an ADSL
> modem) the cable modem should go in to the router and then both
> machines should be connected to the router.
>
> The router is effectively the 'host machine', your two computers have
> no priority over each other and windows ICS does not need enabling as
> it is the router that does the work.

No, he said that the cable modem is connected to the XP Pro machine,
which is probably where his problem is

to the OP : Why don't you connect the Cable modem to the router?


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Ben Cottrell AKA Bench