- Dec 26, 2005
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I have been trying to make my HTPC connect to my router and the rest of my network by connecting it to the wired ethernet on my laptop and my laptop gets on the network with the wireless card. HTPC has xp pro laptop has xp home. I did get it to work once by having miniport bridge installed on the laptop but when I restarted the laptop I couldnt get it to work again. Both machines would pop up an error that there is an ip conflict but I don't know how there could be one unless they are somehow seeing the HTPC twice?
Heres how my network is set up
Cable modem > Router 1 (x.x.x.101) dhcp on< PC 1
< PC 2
< Wireless router (x.x.x.102) dhcp off < Laptop on wireless < laptop wired < another router dhcp off (x.x.x.103) < htpc
I couldn't find my crossover cable so I'm using three different routers, but I dont think thats the problem... could be wrong though. I shouldnt have to turn on ICS or anything right? I'm not really looking for anything real efficient (htpc just needs to connect to freedb and stuff every once in awhile) here just don't want to buy another wireless card or run more cables. I do have a 11mbps wireless card for the htpc but I figure that would just make things more difficult and I want some speed to transfer files and stream videos between the laptop and htpc.
thanks for the help
Heres how my network is set up
Cable modem > Router 1 (x.x.x.101) dhcp on< PC 1
< PC 2
< Wireless router (x.x.x.102) dhcp off < Laptop on wireless < laptop wired < another router dhcp off (x.x.x.103) < htpc
I couldn't find my crossover cable so I'm using three different routers, but I dont think thats the problem... could be wrong though. I shouldnt have to turn on ICS or anything right? I'm not really looking for anything real efficient (htpc just needs to connect to freedb and stuff every once in awhile) here just don't want to buy another wireless card or run more cables. I do have a 11mbps wireless card for the htpc but I figure that would just make things more difficult and I want some speed to transfer files and stream videos between the laptop and htpc.
thanks for the help