internet sharing

21 Mar 2009 10:58 PM

rc

Hello group,

I am trying desperately to share an internet connection between a laptop
running Windows Vista connected wirelessly to a Westell 7500 modem (thru
Verizon) and a desktop running Windows XP. I would like to also do this
wirelessly using a Realtek8185 wireless network card. I have everything
installed, I can see the network connection and yet I can't seem to connect.
I'm having brain freeze as I have set up networks and shared internet
connections before although there was always at least one wired connection.
I must add that I tried to hard wire a connection to the desktop but would
only get 169.x.x.x ip addresses. Help......

22 Mar 2009 2:06 AM

Jack [MVP-Networking]

Hi
If you do not have a Router with DHCP you have to assign Static IPs and use
ICS.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/bowman_02april08.mspx
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)

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"rc" <rc@home> wrote in message
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> Hello group,
>
> I am trying desperately to share an internet connection between a laptop
> running Windows Vista connected wirelessly to a Westell 7500 modem (thru
> Verizon) and a desktop running Windows XP. I would like to also do this
> wirelessly using a Realtek8185 wireless network card. I have everything
> installed, I can see the network connection and yet I can't seem to
> connect. I'm having brain freeze as I have set up networks and shared
> internet connections before although there was always at least one wired
> connection. I must add that I tried to hard wire a connection to the
> desktop but would only get 169.x.x.x ip addresses. Help......
>

22 Mar 2009 9:22 AM

James Egan

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:58:37 -0400, "rc" <rc@home> wrote:

>I am trying desperately to share an internet connection between a laptop
>running Windows Vista connected wirelessly to a Westell 7500 modem (thru
>Verizon) and a desktop running Windows XP. I would like to also do this
>wirelessly using a Realtek8185 wireless network card. I have everything
>installed, I can see the network connection and yet I can't seem to connect.
>I'm having brain freeze as I have set up networks and shared internet
>connections before although there was always at least one wired connection.
>I must add that I tried to hard wire a connection to the desktop but would
>only get 169.x.x.x ip addresses. Help......

That device is a modem router so you should be able to connect to it
wirelessly from both desktop and laptop at the same time. Before you
can do that you need to establish a wired connection to the modem
router's web interface at (default) 192.168.1.1 and configure all the
wireless and maybe mac access control settings. Then match those
settings on the pc's.

If you can't communicate with the modem router at all you may have to
hard reset it to its default settings. You need to look in the manual
for how to do that.

Jim.

22 Mar 2009 11:33 AM

Sooner Al [MVP]

To add, here is a version of the manual that the OP may be interested in.

http://onlinehelp.verizon.net/consumer/bin/pdf/VersaLink7500UserGuide.pdf

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