At the end of my rope help!

[yazman]

Allright I ordered At&t cable internet went out bought a router and 2 nics.
Mail in the rebates with sku's and day before installation at&t calls me to tell
me that I can't get Internet cos they haven't upgraded my area yet. Efin idiots.
Anyway I want to set up my three computer to use the router as a hub cos I have a
internal DSL modem Ok here is where it gets tricky I can access the router by
typing in the IP and I can see all three computers when I go to my network places.
But I can't get the internet connection sharing to work. So the set up is like this all
3 computers are connected to the lan ports on the router and nothing in the wan port.
I don't get it, it worked with a phoneline network and now I already have cat5 patch cable
running through the whole house so crossover and plus one more nic in my pc is the last resort.
Is this possible?

And all three have XP pro in case it matters. :disgust:

 

[Wik]

Turn off DHCP to the clients in the router.

 

[Patrician]

You said that you have nothing in the wan port, right. I have a lynksys router and to access the internet we just plug the cat5 cable from the DSL modem into the wan port and leave DHCP turned on.

See if this helps.

Peter

 

[yazman]

Patrician thanks but as I said its an internal DSL modem (old school)
I did disable dhcp I manually assinged Ip addresses to corespond to the
routers address (except for the last set of numbers of course). So basically router IP
is my default getaway and dns server as well as dhcp server.
I can ping the hell out of each other and browse all pc's but no damn internet.
Should I disable DHCP server in the router itself and then let windows do it automatically?

 

[yazman]

thanks Wik you had the right idea. Disabled DHCP from the router, and let XP assign
private IP's by itself and its all good in the hood now. Thanks.