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When I wanted to learn to drive a car I paid for driving instruction. When I wanted to learn to fly an aeroplane, I paid for flight training.

Have you considered buying a book to help you with learning how to use your PCs? Or evening classes? Or even hiring someone to set it up and explain it to you?

Just a thought.

SD

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As metioned by someone above, ditch the BT Router.

ICS should be avoided like the plague and although I am sure there are many who have got it to work, there are many good reasons why it should not be used (Security, problems with AV software, problems with Windows XP SP2 firewall to name but a few... oh and needing to have the first PC on if you are using a USB cionnection to your router as well.)

I have several computers sharing a netgear router here, both by cable and wireless (cabled PCs via a switch as well). It is fairly easy to setup if you start off with the basics and then build up a secure setup. The secret is to take it a step at a time.....

Go to a certain large PC Emporium where you can currently buy a Netgear Wireless ADSL router/firewall for around £70 on special offer. (DG834GT or similar)

Get a network cable for the desktop.

When you get home again, first log on to your router and get your login. (BT don't use a password for access) The login is usually [email protected] (or a few variations), where xxx is a number.

Plug desktop into new router and login. Setup BT login in router setup and then plug in ADSL line.

Before going any further, get this to connect to the internet first.

Then get wirelss working for laptop. Alternatively use another cable.

Sorry, short and sweet answer, but it is rather late...

If you want ot go down this road, I'm sure there are some of us who will help hold your hand....

Regards,

Shuttlebus

P.S. Since I can't determine if your PCs have network ports, I won't gaurantee you end up spending nore than the cost of the router....

Thanks for your reply shuttlebus.

So far now I have succesfully got myself a LAN network and it has connected both computers no problem.

All I want now is the Internet Connection Sharing!
I have spent £10 on a crossover cable so I am not prepared to 'ditch' it and buy a router which is £50!!!!!

So can someone tell me how to enable internet connection sharing on WINDOWS XP, with a Dell Dimension 5000 sharing the internet connection of BT Broadband 2MB to share with a Dell Inspiron 9300.

I would be grateful for websites that are easy to follow with step by step guides. Or just replies with how to enable ICS would be much appreciated.

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BOTH computers have network \'ports\' or \'slots\'.