Here's my setup. Windows 7 (dhcp) wireless Windows XP Sp3 (static) wired WRT54G running DD-WRT Now, when I boot 7, it takes a long while before I can see all the network shares. I cannot ping the other machine at all, until it loads. I have tried different configurations, such as all dhcp, all static, etc... nothing corrects the problem. Is this the way it's supposed to happen? Currently, all machines have internet access through the router, I just can't see the xp box from 7. If i ping the windows 7 box from xp, it suddenly works.