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crashwg:
How do I connect a computer to two networks?

Here's the situation:

My desktop PC is connected to my neighbor's wireless router via a USB wireless G adapter for internet access.
My desktop PC is also connected to my own router which also has connected to it, my XBOX and just recently a FreeNAS box.

What I want: To access the internet and interface with my xbox/FreeNAS simultaneously.

The way I've been doing it: Open Network Connections, disable one adapter, enable the other, go about my business, revert to previous configuration.

I've tried a bridging the connections but when I do I can not get on the internet.  Only the wired network seems to work.

So this is possible right?
If it is, I'm going to need step by step instructions.  Everything I've been able to find on "multihomed" computers is complete gibberish to me.

Thanks in advance!

protokatie:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/crawford_02april22.mspx

This gives all the basics. Personally I have never done this before, but now I know how easy it is. BTW this is for XP, dunno if it is the same for Vista or not.

Also, to do it right, Stop bumming off of your neighbors and get your own damn internet you BUMM! :P (Then you wouldn't need to bridge)

EDIT: Now that I think about it, this solution may not work for your specific problem... You might need to set up your router as an access point with your wifi computer set up as the server via internet connection sharing. Have you logged into your router to see what options it has for this? (If not, go into your browser when connected to the router and type http://192.168.1.1 to access your router's web based options.)

crashwg:
Oh yea, forgot to mention I'm using WinXP...

The link you privided protokatie is pretty much what I was trying before which causes the wireless to stop working.

As for options on the router I'm not sure how I would set something like that up.  The wireless adapter that I'm using to connect to the internet is USB so I can't attach it to my router.

Grasshopper:
That's weird. I've got exactly the same setup and bridging worked for me.

Maybe you should try disabling DHCP and setting the IP addresses manually. That sometimes fixes weird network problems.

crashwg:
I was able to get this going by using an older router that I had lying around.  It has an option to use it as a bridge. 

So I went into the configuration for the router and set it to be a bridge.  I plugged the wired network adapter to the router-now-bridge in the "modem" port then enabled internet connection sharing on the wireless adapter.  Now it seems to be working... for the most part.  I have internet and I can access the XBOX and the FreeNAS but I can't access any of my neighbors computers and vice versa.  Not a huge deal but it would be a bonus if that were to work.

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