ECN Forum Forums Technical Discussion Re: Computers and the Internet Networking Problem

Mike,
I really feel your pain. I finally bought a powerfull XP machine in June and had alot of stuff to copy from my 98SE machine. Since my old hard drive was only 36GB, transferring 2GB at a time with an $18 USB drive worked great for me. I did get a wireless router a couple weeks ago and have been suffering through that learning experience. The XP machine created an installation file for the 98 machine. I seem to remember that answering the wizard that it was a home network, assigned it to a different network name. My problem now is that my XP machine is demanding a password that I never assigned from the old machine. At least I can see both machines though. Anticipating problems, I went into Zone Alarm early on and told the one machine to allow xxx.xxx.x.2,and the other one xxx.xxx.xxx.3. If you haven't gotten it to work with a router or directly, perhaps the logging function of the router could help you troubleshoot. By the way, are you able to get to the Internet through the router from either machine? Or at least the router page?
Joe