Please help with a confusing network problem

Hi, I have a desktop pc and a tablet pc(just think laptop). Anyway I
brought the netgeat MA111 for the pc so I could network the two. At
first it went great, better than great it was perfect, I could surf
the net from bed, transfer files etc. But recently I have had some
serious problems. One day I spent a few hours trying to troubleshoot
them, and then suddenly it started to work and I could ping each other
and ICS was working. I woke up the next day, turned it all on and it
wasn't working.

What make it extremely weird is that both say they are connected with
a strong signal strength. I can see the SSID I make on the pc on the
tablet and try to join it and it seems to work. But I can't even ping
each other. I have PAcketMon running and it detects the ip of the
tablet trying to do stuff, so there is definitely a connection, so I
think the problem is software...
I have tried to set the ips and subnet masks to 192.168.0.1/2 and
255.255.255.0 and then try to ping each other, and I can see in
PacketMon one ip sending a packet to the other but I can't actually
ping each other. If I leave windows to set the ips and subnet, the ips
are 169.254.167.61 169.254.141.238, with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0.
Anyway PacketMon picks up allot of packets, going from an ip to some
other ips, always with a 255 in them, i.e UDP from 169.254.167.61:137
to 169.254.255.255:137 size 78...

I used to think this was a wireless problem, but it is not. I tried
connecting them together useing a hub and wire but that had the same
sort of thing happen to it. The XP wizzards set everything up but it
just doesn't work. I've tried to also disable all the automatic
settings and set it all manually but with no luck. I belive the
problem to be a software problem or something..

I've tried to give you as much information as possible. Hopefully you
can help, Thanks in advance

P.S. firewall off when testing

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> Hi, I have a desktop pc and a tablet pc(just think laptop). Anyway I
> brought the netgeat MA111 for the pc so I could network the two. At
> first it went great, better than great it was perfect, I could surf
> the net from bed, transfer files etc. But recently I have had some
> serious problems. One day I spent a few hours trying to troubleshoot
> them, and then suddenly it started to work and I could ping each other
> and ICS was working. I woke up the next day, turned it all on and it
> wasn't working.
>
> What make it extremely weird is that both say they are connected with
> a strong signal strength. I can see the SSID I make on the pc on the
> tablet and try to join it and it seems to work. But I can't even ping
> each other. I have PAcketMon running and it detects the ip of the
> tablet trying to do stuff, so there is definitely a connection, so I
> think the problem is software...
> I have tried to set the ips and subnet masks to 192.168.0.1/2 and
> 255.255.255.0 and then try to ping each other, and I can see in
> PacketMon one ip sending a packet to the other but I can't actually
> ping each other. If I leave windows to set the ips and subnet, the ips
> are 169.254.167.61 169.254.141.238, with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0.
> Anyway PacketMon picks up allot of packets, going from an ip to some
> other ips, always with a 255 in them, i.e UDP from 169.254.167.61:137
> to 169.254.255.255:137 size 78...
>
> I used to think this was a wireless problem, but it is not. I tried
> connecting them together useing a hub and wire but that had the same
> sort of thing happen to it. The XP wizzards set everything up but it
> just doesn't work. I've tried to also disable all the automatic
> settings and set it all manually but with no luck. I belive the
> problem to be a software problem or something..
>
When Windows gives itself a 169.x.x.x address it means that it hasn't
found a DHCP server. The packets from local port 137 to x.x.255.255:137
are Windows broadcasting to find SMB shares, but as it doesn't have the
correct IP address it won't find any on its subnet. ICS doesn't like
manual settings, so if you can it's best to get the DHCP working. Try
reinstalling all the networking on the desktop from scratch, and set the
tablet to use automatic setings. You might want to try third-party
routing/proxy software which can be a bit easier to tame. I like
Winroute Pro.