Netgear Router, HSDPA card and 2 PCs

3GisDaMan

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I always seem to find the solution straight after I posted the question on a forum, so here goes!!

I have the following setup.

WinXP Desktop PC with a Netgear Wireless ADSL router and a HSDPA Card. No ADSL connection yet, as I am waiting on Telkom... :mad:

WinXP Laptop that connects wirelessly to the desktop.

The network work fine, and I can suft the internet from the desktop.

The laptop can't surf the internet, even though the local network is visible and working.

Internet connection sharing is swithced on, and used to work before I installed the wireless router. Before I used a normal network cable.

So, what is missing here? Some post seem the suggest something about DHCP?

Cheers
 
I found the solution, like I predicted :-)

Two main steps were missings.

1. Switch off the DHCP server on the router. It seems that with Internet Connection sharing in Win XP, Windows will take over DHCP, and you can't have 2 DHCP servers on your home lan...
2. Assign the router a IP address, other that the default one, which seems to be 192.168.0.1. If you enable internet connection sharing, the router and your "server" (the PC that connect to the internet via 3G) will have the same IP. Windows also assing 192.168.0.1 to the "server".

It works well!!
 
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