Setting up home networking

[lazyrunner50]

For some reason, I can't get my home network set up. We currently have two computers, one wireless, and the other connected directly to the wireless router. Both computers can access the internet, but I can't get them to network together.<BR><BR>My computer, running WinXP Pro is on a wireless nic. I set up the computer through the home network wizard, and when I go to network places, I can see my computer on the network, but not my parents computer.<BR><BR>My parents computer is running WinXP Home on a wired connection. I also set theirs up through home network wizard. When I try to go to network places with theirs, I get an error saying it can't access the network. <BR><BR>I set up the router with shared key 128-bit encryption and WEP enabled. I also disabled SSID broadcast as well as requiring specific MAC addresses to access the router.<BR><BR>I have tried pinging my parents computer from mine and mine from theirs and I get no response. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[in54n3]

what type of routr do u have? i had the same problem when i was getting 2 routers to be on the same subnet, but now i have to linksys's with uplink ports so i can. also, if the router came with a cd, make sure to try that too

[lazyrunner50]

Hey. Thanks for your reply, but I already got it worked out. I got tired of waiting, so I posted it in the hardware section. Turns out all I needed to do was install the NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Compatible Transport Protocol! Oh, and I am using a Netgear router.<BR><BR>By the way, did you ever get the problem worked out with your routers that you posted in the hardware section? Not to reiterate what has already been said, but you should need no more than one router. That router will split up your connection so that each computer can get connected. The only reason I see that you could need more than one router is if you<BR><BR>1. Have more computers than the 4 that are supported by most wired routers.<BR>2. Have a more computers than the 256 or so computers that are supported on a wireless router.<BR><BR>In either case, it would probably be easier to hook up a hub to one of the ports on the router and use that to further split the connection.