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I just got a new laptop and i'm connected through a crossover cable to another computer that is connected to the internet, dsl. I set up the network with the wizards and everthing works except certain websites espn.com, vt.edu, those have never worked. Google will work some times and others it won't, i can't find a pattern. When i connect through the built in 56k all websites work, so i don't think it's a windows explorer issue, and that it is a network issue. I'm running Windows XP Pro, this is a dell 5150 laptop and i built my house computer. The bastards at dell sent me through 4 different phone numbers to finally find a woman who told me networking support was gonna cost 244 bucks. I'm in the Tactical Ops clan and i thought this is a computer forum, those guys can help me out. please do. thanks alot.

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www.practicallynetworked.com

This place has a lot of resources for How To's and Troubleshooting. If nothing else find a cheap router and use it. I've always had problems trying to do internet connection sharing useing one computer as the gateway. Seems like settings work for a while and then suddenly they don't and then they come back for a while. Router wil make it much easier and you get a hardware firewall that way too. :wink:

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The problem is, you can't just connect two computers together and share the internet connection very well. Something has to work as a server to the other computer. If you're not ready to go with a router, try Pi-Soft's SpoonProxy. It runs on the computer that is connected to the internet and is just what the name implies, a proxy. I used this for a couple of years before I got my wireless router. It worked great, even with dial-up, before I got cable. I'm not sure about the cross-over cable, though. I already had my house wired, even when I was still on dial-up, and everything was connected together via a hub/switch. If you are ready, though, routers are cheap these days and they truly are the way to go.

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ed.. i was hitting the post reply button then i said... well maybe i should read on....

coulnt' have put it better... if you need a proxy www.analogx.com has a free one that is pretty good. I would recommend getting at least a switch to do this. instead of installing 2 nic's in your computer.

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I don't think i have ever been this impressed in my life. I didn't think this thread would be read for another week, and when i did get my 1 reply i didn't expect you to understand me for my lack of explaining ablilties. The crossover cable is the kinda cable you need to just go from computer to computer, doesn't work with router business i don't think, for whoever asked about crossover. I was hoping i could get this fixed without a router, but it seems like that's not gonna happen, which is ok. I'm leaving for college in a few weeks and there's no sense for buying a router for 2 weeks, but i'll definately copy all your reply's to word and bring em up next summer. Can't thank you all enough.

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Well i went with bruce's site, no offense Ed his post said free, and i found it and have read the readme for setting up the network 3 times and it went not directly over my head but somewhat passed me. Alot of info on finding the ip address for my computer, and i followed the directions to find it and I have "obtain an ip address automatically," not a set ip address. I'm probably looking in the wrong place. Also, under network connections for the HOST computer i have, right now without running the proxy:

Broadband

Fastaccess Dsl

connected, sharing, firewalled

WAN miniport (PPPOE)

DialUp

but i know enough that this would not make any diff

LAN or High-Speed Internet

DSL Modem

enabled

(and it lists my modem)

and...

Internet Connection Sharing

enabled

(lists my network card)

Maybe that will help you help me. I dunno.

Will i need to disable the 2 things under lan or highspeedinternet?

How would i see the proxy server on a networked computer?

Thanks alot.

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OK, i did some digging and when i right clicked fastaccess dsl i went through properties and then networking, saw tcp/ip and went to the properties for that sucker and it said obtain auto. I went down to the DSL Modem and Internet Connection Sharing things and did the same thing to find that, and i think my friend did this, that it had a set IP, which is in one of the boundaries that the readme said i need to have an IP between. Is that the ip for my computer that the readme was talking about?

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I don't know anything about the AnalogX proxy, having never used it. But, if you're worried about free, Pi-Soft's SpoonProxy is also free if you're only going to have one other computer connecting through it. Anyway, once set up and running on the computer connected to the internet ("server"), you should be able configure the "client" to use a proxy and point it at the internal network IP of the "server". If the proxy is configured for separate ports for each of the main protocols (HTTP, HTTPS or Secure, FTP, Gopher, etc.) then you would configure the "client" to use those proxy ports.

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