Bruce,
I was really being sarcastic with my comment about the
computer crashing if I uninstalled the network card. I
can see where you might have thought I would never try
that. Anyway, I am making some progress. I have
disabled Zonealarm and that is letting me network, but
now I have to figure out what to do with ZA!
thanks,
Bob
-----Original Message-----
Its not like, if it "crashed" it is actually going to
break anything.

I have been through this kind of problem before, and
sometimes you have
to completely remove and reinstall the network card
driver. The problem
won't go away until you do, if that's where your problem
is.

Sometimes, it also necessary to actually rename the
computer after
removing the networking (software) components.
Sometimes, old network
protocols appear to hang on, invisibly, even after you
remove them in
the Connection Properities dialog.

"Starting from scratch" is best, because once you truly
are at scratch,
it really is wonderfully simple and straightforward to
just run the
wizard. Getting to "scratch" is sometimes problematic,
and there's
often little use in fiddlin' with individual settings.

"Bob" wrote in
message
...
Bruce,
thanks for the suggestion, but with my luck, I'll
uninstall the network card and my system will probably
crash! I don't have that much confidence in Microsoft!
I'm not going to go that far with this problem.
Thanks anyway,
Bob

-----Original Message-----
I would second the recommendation to start from
scratch,
with this
additional recommendation along the same line: go to
Device Manager and
uninstall the network card. (You should probably make
sure you have
drivers handy for your network card, before you do
this.) Reinstall the
network card, and then run the network setup wizard,
choosing the
"connect thru a residential gateway option" on both
computers.


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