Setting up a home network with Voyager router

I am setting up a new machine running WinXP-SP2
Home edition, to replace an older machine running
win98SE - updated to current date.

This will eventually be used by someone else in
the family on a wireless network but I haven't got
that set up yet, and haven't bought the wireless
adapter for the remote machine - at the moment I
am just wanting to transfer files and download
stuff using both machines in the same room
connected with crossover cable via ethernet ports.

I'm an experienced PC user and builder but new to
XP and new to networks.

Win98SE now has a Network logon, and I am working
in XPHome on an Admin account that I don't intend
to use for anything except setting up.

I have a wireless voyager router, with wireless
OFF, and connecting to the XP machine via USB (I
normally connect to the router via ethernet but as
each machine has only one ethernet port I am using
usb to connect to internet at this stage of the game).
The XP machine is connected to the Win98SE machine
with a crossover ethernet cable.

I want to network the two machines together, and
share the internet access.

I have tried using the network wizard from to set
up the network on both machines but am unable to
get both a network AND shared internet. I can do
one or the other but not both. I have tried
assigning IP's manually on both machines, and also
letting both machines auto-assign - but if the
internet connection is up and running, they don't
seem to be able to auto-assign an IP address. If I
manually assign the address then the internet
connection goes down.

Router details are at present:
LAN side IP Address Settings
Primary IP Address
Enter here the IP address of your BT Voyager. This
is the address visible from the computers on your
network.
IP Address: 192.168.11
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Host Name: voyager
Domain Name: home
Secondary IP Address
Configure secondary IP address and subnet mask -
not ticked

DHCP Server Settings
Enabling DHCP Server on LAN interface can provide
the proper IP address settings to your computer.
DHCP Server - On
Start IP: 192.168.1.2
End IP: 192.168.1.2.254
Lease Time: 1days 0hours 0minutes
DHCP Server off

Reserved IP entries - none entered so far.

As my network functions when the router is not
connected, and as internet functions fine when
network is not connected. But if I try and run
both then either the internet access goes down or
the network goes down.

I'm fairly sure that the problem comes when I
enter the IP's for my two computers in the network
wizard - at the moment I have tried 192.168.1.1
and 192.168.1.2 - but it looks like those are
already occupied by the router?
What should I be telling the wizard about IP
addresses and subnet mask for each network?
And do I need to change anything on the network
section of the router?

And how do I go about clearing out the old network
entries and starting afresh?

Many many thanks to anyone who can help me.

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Robert M Jones

On Thu, 25 May 2006 12:39:03 +0100, Robert M Jones
<robert53newsgroups-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Router details are at present:
>LAN side IP Address Settings
>Primary IP Address
>Enter here the IP address of your BT Voyager. This
>is the address visible from the computers on your
>network.
>IP Address: 192.168.11
>Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

The ip address of the router is wrong (probably just a typo missing
dot) so check that.

The easiest way is to create a network bridge on the xp machine
(between the ethernet and usb network interfaces) and let both
machines get an ip address from the router by dhcp.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro.../xpbrdgnt.mspx


Jim.

James Egan wrote:
> On Thu, 25 May 2006 12:39:03 +0100, Robert M Jones
> <robert53newsgroups-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> Router details are at present:
>> LAN side IP Address Settings
>> Primary IP Address
>> Enter here the IP address of your BT Voyager. This
>> is the address visible from the computers on your
>> network.
>> IP Address: 192.168.11
>> Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
>
> The ip address of the router is wrong (probably just a typo missing
> dot) so check that.
>
> The easiest way is to create a network bridge on the xp machine
> (between the ethernet and usb network interfaces) and let both
> machines get an ip address from the router by dhcp.
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro.../xpbrdgnt.mspx
>
>
> Jim.
>

Yes - sorry about the typo - spotted it after it
had gone - should be 1.1 not 11
Thank you for the link - I will follow that one
up - it looks helpful. I did see the bridging
option but didn't know enought to make it work.

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