capability. I was tired of waiting to get on my computer because mine of course is the fastest, so the kids prefer it- dsl, 2 gig ram- anyway, I cancelled the dial-up service in my older sons room on his phone line, bought a US Robotics broadband router and networked my boys computers and mine to share the DSL connection- I am sure we won't lose any bandwidth, anyway after a couple days the kids computers continually stop recognizing they are networked and wont go on the internet. It takes tons of time to reconfigure. I am new to networking, it seems basic, however, could I be doing something wrong? I use the Win XP Pro network wizard and a disk I burned per choices the wizard gave me...any ideas or suggestions to prevent this reoccuring problem?
I networked my home computers through a Broadband router %26 DSL modem after a few days we loose network?ktm
OK, since you have a router the individual computers shouldn't be going through any processes involving wizards or disks. The Windows XP Internet connection sharing is designed to try and share a broadband connection WITHOUT a router (and that type of connection often does conk out after a couple of days- it attempts to have other machines connect to the Internet through your computer, instead of connecting directly to the router)
All machines should have their TCP/IP settings as "obtain an IP address automatically" and "obtain DNS server automatically" - that's all. Your router will be the gateway but you don't need to specify that manually.
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