We have 4 desktops setup. One has a ethernet port and a wireless
PCI card that picks up the church's main connection. We want to use this one
as a host computer. We also have a 4 port router. We hope to pick up the
wireless connection on the host and run it to the router to share it with the
other three. Any comments would be appreciated!

Try:

1. Connect to the router's configuration page and disable it's DHCP
function.

2. Connect all 4 computers to the LAN ports on the router.

3. On the host compter, either bridge the ethernet and wireless
connections, or enable ICS on the wireless connection.

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

"Clayton - FCC - First Christain Church" <Clayton - FCC - First Christain
Church@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B9AB67ED-F2C0-4FA0-9BF0-377CD7F6383E@microsoft.com...
> We have 4 desktops setup. One has a ethernet port and a
wireless
> PCI card that picks up the church's main connection. We want to use this
one
> as a host computer. We also have a 4 port router. We hope to pick up the
> wireless connection on the host and run it to the router to share it with
the
> other three. Any comments would be appreciated!

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:39:01 -0800, "Clayton - FCC - First Christain Church"
<Clayton - FCC - First Christain Church@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> We have 4 desktops setup. One has a ethernet port and a wireless
>PCI card that picks up the church's main connection. We want to use this one
>as a host computer. We also have a 4 port router. We hope to pick up the
>wireless connection on the host and run it to the router to share it with the
>other three. Any comments would be appreciated!

Clayton,

It would really be better for everybody if you could connect the 4 computers, as
peers, directly, to the WiFi LAN. BUT, if you can't, and IFF the WiFi LAN
doesn't use subnet 192.168.0/24, then you can use ICS to share service on the
host, thru the router. You setup the router as the second router in my
scenario.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-on-lan-with-two-routers.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...o-routers.html

You enable ICS on the host, or you run the Network Setup Wizard, and select the
first option:
This computer connects directly to the Internet. The other computers on my
network connect to the Internet through this computer.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/using-network-setup-wizard-in-windows.html#ICSHost>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...s.html#ICSHost

Make sure that you identify the Ethernet connection as the one that you will
share thru.

--
Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
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actual address pchuck mvps org.