Here's what I want to do, I have a working network of 4 computers all running Windows XP Home edition, some wireless, some wired, all connecting to a single wireless router. Now I have added a Windows 7 laptop and connected it to this network, wirelessly. This works fine, however it states that there is no internet connection, yet it works fine (similar bug in XP computers at SP2.) Now I want to complicate things, I want to effectively connect a XP Home edition computer thrugh a LAN and use it as a wireless adapter, to access the network and gain internet access, I believe this should be relitively straight foreward as I had no trouble file sharing between the two computers, I am just having trouble then connecting to the WIRELESS network... lil help?

So you are trying to set up ICS?

yes I have tryed to use this ICS however it doesnt seem to want to interface with each other.

You should be able to use an XP machine with ICS to connect the a wireless LAN to the physical LAN. When you set up ICS, select the LAN NIC as the public interface to be shared. The wireless NIC will be set to 192.168.0.1 and machines in the wireless network shouldget 192.168.0.x IP addresses from the allocator in ICS. Note that you cannot use ICS if your router also uses the 192.168.0.0/24 subnet.Bill