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Date Posted: July 25, 2001
Date Written: January 15, 2001

5. Once you click ok, a message will appear asking you if you're sure you want to turn ICS on, as it will set your LAN Adapter (your NIC) to the IP address of 192.168.0.1. Simply click "Yes" and it will automatically setup your NIC's TCP/IP properties to use the IP address of 192.168.0.1 with the subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. Now, you have successfully shared the connection from your DSL computer to the rest of your Network. Any computer you plug into the Hub and set the NIC for DHCP, will grab a 192.168.0.x IP address and will be able to gain access to the web via this DSL connection.

Double check the properties for your NIC to ensure that they are setup correctly to use ICS. At the "My Network Places" Window, Right click on your Local Area Connection Icon and select Properties from the drop down menu. This will bring up a window that looks like this:

Now, to check the TCP/IP settings, Simply double click on the "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" line, or highlight it and then click the "Properties" button beneath it. This will bring you to this window:

Your TCP/IP Properties should look exactly like this as well. If they do not, then there is a problem somewhere.

 

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