[irishcrazy2005]

Originally Posted by U2Lynne

No, I don't think you want it to still say obtain IP address automatically. What is your router model number (I know it's a linksys, but what model, 802.11b just tells me it's wireless). Here is something on portforward.com on setting up a static IP on XP: http://portforward.com/networking/static-xp.htm You might want to take a look at that and see if you did it correctly. I'm kinda wondering about the IP you picked: 192.168.2.100 . I think you want a '1' instead of a '2' like this: 192.168.1.100.

I'll try changing that thing from automatically when I get home today, but I don't know what I would fill in as the IP address (since it wouldn't make sense to put a local IP in there). I have a BEFWS11S4v4 router. Portfoward.com is actually where I got the instructions to do it in the first place. Also, the '2' instead of the '1' is some strange thing that is required by my ISP, I don't know why, that's just what the linksys people told me when I couldn't install my router in the first place because the default '1' wouldn't work.