Problems with ICS and New Wireless setup

[Joseph Varghese_2]

Hey everyone,

I just purchased a Compaq CP-2W as my connection point, two usb wireless adapters (200 series) and a pc card for my laptop. I am using windows XP on my systems, and believe it or not, I'm still using a 56k dial up modem for the few hours that I'm not in my office. I upgraded the firmware on the cp-2W as well as the new drivers for the usb wireless adapter. Here's the problem I'm encountering. When I let the IP get assigned from the DHCP server automatically, the two desktops that I'm working with can see eath other, ping each other, view each other's shared drives and so on. When running the ICS wizard, it says that it finds the computer that's sharing its connection and continues to set it up. The client pc is able to show when my ISP and the host pc are in a connected or disconnected state. However, after running the wizard quite a few times, host is still unable to browse the web.

Also, when i run the wizard on the host computer, the IP changes to the default MS. IP, and the computers are no longer able to ping each other. Is there an easier way to set this up? I've read through many links that were presented in this forum, and I believe that the actual initial setup was done correctly. Why is it that i can see the state of connection and not be able to use it? Thanks in advance for your comments.