Ok, here's the deal. Since moving in with CGT, I set up a home network for us. We have a desktop, laptop and a Linksys router. All works fine, except for the internet sharing part. For the life of me I can't get it to work. We use AOL 9.0 dial up. I'm sure I just answered the better part of my question right then. LOL

Anyway... is there some trick to configuring the router settings or the shared internet connection settings in Windows XP to work with AOL????

Not familiar with AOL at all, but with a router you shouldn't have to set much as long as you are both in the same IP subnet. Part of your problem might be the router, since Cisco bought out Lynsys there routers have been junk.

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[edit] Crap, I had a somewhat decent answer here (at least I thought so) and then re-read the orignal post and saw the dial-up portion of it, sorry... no help from here as I have no idea how to get a dial-up shared connection to work with the router.

As a thought, the router may be the problem and you might just want to be using a ethernet switch or the common side of the router (if it has a built in switch). The machine that is doing the dial-up is the connection point and the router will just get in the way of things.

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The one computer that has the modem in it has to have "Internet Connection Sharing" turned on, then from it to the router (out of the nick card) and you will have to statically set your IP addresses.

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The shin bone's connected to the calf bone...the calf bone's connected to the knee bone...

*blink, blink*

OK...OK...I was being nosey again and I KNOW I shouldn't have come in here...but I did...and now I feel like a deer in the headlights once again! Thanks a fuckin lot darogle!

Um...hope ya get it all worked out! Oh...and please ignore the ignorance of my initial contribution! *giggle*

P.S. Whenever I read the word "router"...I immediately remember I have to buy a plunge router for hubby for X-mas...so this wasn't a complete waste of your's and my time...eh?

OK...OK...I'm leaving...STOP PUSHING ME!!!!! OUCH! It does hurt when the door hits you in the ass!!!!!!!

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LOL@Lixy

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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
E. E. Cummings

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Hey! Don't make me come back in here...I don't chew my cabbage twice!

*scratches head* My mother had some pretty peculiar sayings...eh? That one just came up from the bowels of my brain! Ewwwwww...now there's a wierder expression! Guess I'm a chip off the old block, huh? OMG...and now I'm stuck in cliche mode and completely off the topic again! Yikes!

*swings door open and runs fast...so as not to bruise the hiney again*

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