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51574	2002-05-30 07:51:00	I have an Ihug satellite connection, thus modem out satellite (basically ethernet) in. Never had much luck setting up a home LAN with '98 but along came XP and all that changed. Now a total of 4 machines on a home LAN connected to my machine which runs XP Pro. Initially installed XP and lo and behold there was a network. It even asked if I wanted to connect to the internet and lo and behold it was done !! Unfortunately XP is not immune from disease and it suffered the usual cardiac arrest. On reinstallation it seems I have the option of the LAN but no internet connection from the client PC's. I THINK the LAN card (in my machine) should be 192.168.0.1 and that the clients should get an IP on that system. However, XP insists giving them an address in the range 169.254.x.x, hence to internet. Can someone tell me what might be wrong ? I have let XP bridge connections but all that does is stop me connecting altogether. Forget firewalls as well. Any help would be appreciated. P.S. Everything is slowing these days, including satellites. Cheapskate ISP's I suppose.	Guest (0)
51575	2002-05-31 06:42:00	I use Win 98, ihug Ultra and use a Proxy. You have 3 cards in the machine that connects to the Net: 1. A network card 2. A modem 3. The Sky media card. 1. All the network cards need to use the same address range - in your case 192.168.0.x and the subnet mask for ALL the local network cards should be 255.255.255.0 2. The modem needs to be set to 'Obtain an IP address automatically' 3. The Sky card needs the address supplied by ihug.	Guest (0)
51576	2002-05-31 09:35:00	Thanks, I'll give that a try	Guest (0)
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