Who's your Internet Service provider? Most of the time, the IP address, subnet mask, etc, is provided automatically by the ISP. Normally, all you need to do is plug it in, and if you've got DSL, get to the router's configuration page (how to do that is dependant upon the router model), and enter in your user name and password.

The thing is, you're doing more than adding a router to your network. When you network was originally setup, your ISP gave you a DSL modem of some type, and you connected this to your PC. Most small DSL routers, use an ethernet cable to connect to this modem and then your PC plugs into one of the router's switch ports. Now, you are trying to replace your ISP's DSL modem with the one in this router. Unless your ISP told you this router was compatible with their DSL service, it very well may not work at all. Most of the time, when these integrated routers are used,they are provided by your ISP. That saves them money because they only buy one device.

It wouldnt be oo bad if my computer could see the router on startup ..but it doesnt.

Why cant it see the router???

Ok, let's get technical for a moment. Just what do you mean by "see"? You said in your previous post that "picks up both network cards no problem". If you have each network card on each computer set up to get all ip settings automatically, and make sure you delete the ICS garbage from the one connection that you set up before, then you should be all set. Check all this and then reboot both machines and do this on each. Open a command prompt and type "ipconfig /all > c:\ipconfig.txt". You won't see any output, but the information will be put in C:\ipconfig.txt. Then post the contents of each text file here and I'll look at them.

Hi there,

I am in like the same shit, or maybe worse.

Still, I recommend reading more technical stuff.
Then you could e.g. know that both PC's must have the same
Node Type for the network in order to be able to start sharing network
resources....
Also bear in mind that XP Home and XP Pro differ in FS.
Here are some links I found in myyquest to get file-sharing with two PC's,
one of them with XP Pro and the other 98 SE (Windo$s):

http://www.wown.info/j_helmig/guidshr2.htm
http://www.homenethelp.com/web/howto/net-update.asp
http://www.pcguide.com/vb/archive/in...p/t-13098.html
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/...p_filesharing/
http://www.michna.com/kb/wxnet.htm

and lest but maybe best:

http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...ml#Permissions

I wish you all the luck!