Networking the Road Runner service

[Roostermu]

I have scrolled through most of the post but have not found the answer I'm looking for. Someone please take a stab at this...

I just got Road Runner Cable modem service. In the past I have had two @home accounts and I DSL account and networking everything together was never a problem.

In this case, I have a PC with Win2000 on it, 2 NIC cards, a 100 Meg hub, and two Toshiba laptops.

When plugging the cable modem directly in the PC, everything configures automatically and works fine. This is also the case for ONE of the laptops, the other laptop will not work for some reason. Both NIC cards are working fine in the PC. Okay, here's the problem.....
I have the modem going to the 1st NIC which has all of the fields left blank and it set to DHCP with the Internet Sharing Enabled. The second NIC has the default 192.168.0.1 address with a 255.255.255.0 subnet. This is going to the Hub. The first laptop is configured with a 192.168.0.2 address and 192.168.0.1 for the gateway. Now, the only thing that works is MSN instant messenger, nothing else. And I have tried every configuration possible for this....changing the IP to other numbers, leaving the gateway blank, adding the IP to the first NIC card as the gateway on the second, but NOTHING works.

I moved a week ago to a Columbus, and everything worked fine before with the @home service. And I even called a Computer Engineer buddy who I went to college with and we are both duped. Is there something Road Runner does to stop this? Should I just buy a Router?

Any help would be appreciated.

Roos

[JackMDS]

I doubt that what ever you experience has any thing to do with RR. Cable connection is much easier then DSL.

You did not mention your sharing arrangement, but if you are using ICS? This piece of software is pretty temperamental.

If you want to stick with your current arrangement you probably have to Uninstall, and Reinstall the Network setup.

With the price of Cable/DSL being less then $60 (sales and rebates), there is really no reason to suffer.

And you get:

- Sharing
- Hardware Firewall
- DHCP

And in some brands: Printer Server, and Modem backup port.

[BDillon21]

I have never found using ICS, WinGate, Analog x, etc... very reliable methods for sharing Internet. For the most part they worked fine....other times they would stop working and it would take me hours to solve. I gave up and went with a Netgear router and I haven't had to worry about connectivity since. IF you have a hub you can go one of two ways. You could buy a router with a built in 4 port switch.....this will get you the best speed performance, or you could buy a router without a switch and link it to your hub. You can get routers with built in switches for around 60 to 70 after rebates, or just a router for 30 to 40.

[AMPLIFRIER]

Snag yaself a router
by far the easies method to connect all your machines
as mentioned above
routers wont cost you the farm.

i have the Netgear RT314

love it

AMP