New Type Of Bluetooth Internet Connection Sharing Problem

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ziggystar

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#721 11-Nov-2003 12:33

Here is my interesting problem. We have all windows 2000 machines. They don't seem to have this "bridge" ability. Also, our internet is high speed but it is served through a USB wireless dsl device. So I have a server with this wireless DSL, it shares through our network. I'd like to have my Sony UX-40 get it's internet from my computer. I have disabled all firewalls. I log in fine, but All ping requests come back as can't find host. I have tried setting a ip address, putting in dns settings etc... any other ideas?

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#2158 11-Nov-2003 13:23

Since you have a wireless connnection, and this USB thing might be connected to a router, the first thing I can think is that there's an IP address conflict.

There's no bridge on Windows 2000, but you have to use ICS. You'll enable ICS from the network device to your Bluetooth virtual ethernet adapter. This adapter has to have the 192.168.0.1 address, and you may enter the DNS server addresses here too.

Don't need anything on your Palm device, only the script as per the corresponding Bluetooth Guide.

If your current network is already using the required address, then you might have to try another router software, like Winrouter Lite.

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#2170 13-Nov-2003 12:46

Is there no other way? I can hotsync via bt. Why can't I share my internet that way somehow. I can also do it through the modem in the machine if it dials the internet, but that hogs up a phone line and is slow. Wish I could make a pretend modem that doesn't really dial, it just ports the internet through it.

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#2171 13-Nov-2003 12:53

ziggystar, since you can do it from the modem on that machine, I'm now assuming it's a problem with networking configuration - either components or services.

I know it's drastic, but is reinstalling the OS in this box viable?