Vista Premium, XP home internet connection sharing problem

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castlemaine32

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Hi all,

First pc is running vista premium, this is the host pc connected to the internet, second pc is running xp home and this is the client pc.

I have connected the two computers with a crossover ethernet cable, no router, file sharing is working fine between the two computers but I cannot get internet connection sharing to work.

My ISP is 3 via mobile broadband, somebody told me that you cannot internet connection share mobile broadband? Anyone got any ideas what settings, eg Ip, subnet mask and default gateway etc i could manually enter to get internet connection sharing working? Some advice would be really appreciated. I have already tried to follow all the usual steps to automatically enable internet connection sharing but no joy.

Thanks :)
 

My Computer

System One

castlemaine32 said:
bah! no one replied but i will get there trust me!
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In order to share the connection, you must have a device that will allow this. The most common is the cable/dsl router w/4 port switch (wired or wireless).
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Self built
    CPU
    AMD Athlon 64x2 6000+ 3.0ghz
    Motherboard
    Asus M4N78 Pro
    Memory
    3Gb PC2-5300 DDR2 @ 667mhz
    Graphics card(s)
    XFX Radeon HD 4770 512mb GDDR5
    Sound Card
    VIA HD Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dual monitors: HP W1907 LCD 19" and Gateway HD Display 19" LCD
    Screen Resolution
    1440x900
    Hard Drives
    Barracuda 7200.10 SATA 3.0Gb/s 320 x 2-GB Hard Drive
    PSU
    Antec Earthwatts 80 plus 500 watts
    Case
    Ultra E-Torque ATX Mid tower clear side w/2 120mm fans
    Cooling
    Thermaltake MaxOrb cpu cooler w/120 mm blue led
    Mouse
    OEM HP
    Keyboard
    OEM HP
    Internet Speed
    Download 6885 kb/s upload 367 kb/s
    Other Info
    Optical: Super Muliti DVD burner w/lightscribe, Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1800
Actually i did get internet connection sharing, by switching things so both computers run the same operating system, so internet connection sharing will work with '3' Mobile broadband if anyone is googleing for answers, but dont try using different operating system, I used windows xp home for both and ran the network set up wizard on the host (go to microsoft website for instruction setting up internet connection sharing on two computers) my set up used a crossover ethernet cable and no router, default gateway, dns server dhcp server of client is all 192.168.0.1, subnet mask of client is 255.255.255.0 .
 

My Computer

System One

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