It's pretty easy if they all three are XP. On each computer Right click on My Computer and select properties. Then identification. Make sure they all have different names and the same workgroup name....

Glad you got it fixed! :D Firmware updates? ...as the saying goes, "If it ain't broke....."

That is really quite strange. cnn.com will never return the ping because they have their firewall set to not reply, but the fact that it returns the IP address implies that you have both DNS and...

Try doing a "ping cnn.com" from a command prompt. You won't be able to actually ping it, but it should return the IP address of cnn.com on the first line of results. If it doesn't, then you are...

Well, I understand, but when things get screwy we cannot assume anything. :) The little green lites tell you you have layer 2 connectivity (hardware)for our PCs to work we also need layer 3 which is...

OK, first let's see if your Internet connection is really dead. Since I don't know what your local IP address is let's start by opening a command prompt on the XP machine and type in ipconfig /all...

You need to confirm network connectivity of the tcp/ip protocol from the xp machine before you worry about any network browsing issues, they are really different animals. Make sure you can ping the...

Is the DLink really just an access point or is it a Router? Are all three machines getting their IP addresses from the DLink if it's a Router and what are they? Can you ping each machine from the...