Anyway, I hooked up my Lan using a NetGear network starter kit.. after a bit of fiddling, the network neighbour hood (sharing files and printers) and IPX games (Starcraft, etc) work just great.

However, the real purpose I got it for was to share the net access. I have dailup right now, which isn't very optimal for the job, but cable's here in a month or 2 anyway..

now.. onto my problem

I set my Cel 400, TNT2, etc computer to be the server... and the one downstairs (p133, etc, still runs Starcraft fine though [img]/forum/smile.gif[/img]) as a client...

the diagnostics are just fine when I run them on the server.. and I can see all the computers and stuff through Sygate.. but I can't get the client to use the internet. I did the ping tests. THe computers can ping each other through tcp/ip but the client cannot.

Also, when I run the diagnostic on the client, I get a FAIL from the server's network card.. I've tried reinstalling the tcp/ip drivers.. I've read the trouble shooting..

anyone got any ideas what might be causing the problem?

It's not a physical hardware problem, or even a driver prob, I don't think, as sharing and games work just fine, like I said [img]/forum/smile.gif[/img]