Re: Finding the IP of a router

Bitstring <gg0i4o$511$1@xxxxxxxx>, from the wonderful person Martin Slaney <martinslaneySPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said
Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:37:09 +0000, John Jordan <junk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Enabling ICS for an adapter normally sets the IP of all other adapters to 192.168.0.1 static. You can change this IP in XP, but not 2K, IIRC. The ICS DHCP server doesn't appear to work unless the adapter's IP is set to 192.168.0.x, although the DNS and NAT routing do.

There's no way to control the IP range provided by XP's DHCP server, so if you use dynamic IPs it'll occasionally hand out the IP used by the router. Using static IPs does work though.

The ICS DNS server in XP is horribly unreliable here, in the sense of randomly timing out on every other lookup. It does the same thing on two totally different machines, and with both SP2 and SP3. Windows 2000 was fine.

XP also seems to have a bug where ICS doesn't work (until a service restart) after hibernation if you have the firewall enabled.
That's even worse than I remember it! I'd be putting the 75quid into
one of those fancy routers that have failed to surprise me upthread a
little.

ISTR noticing somewhere that one of the Draytek routers (DSL version I guess) supports use of a (probably) USB 3G adapter as a backup/secondary WAN i/f. Might be an option for the OP - although those Draytek ones are a bit more expensive than the rest.

They tend to work better than the rest though (sitting here with an ADSL/ISDN one that's on year 6 or 7), but really anything that works at all is going to work better than ICS.

I do vaguely recall some other software alternatives to ICS which were marginally better, but they were 'paid for' software, and they don't get round the basic problem of having to have the ICS PC on to access the web from any of the others.

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