areas of network interference, tends to be XPs built in firewall. Try disabling it.
Ive connected computers in the past, including these two, Desktop and notebook, but right now , no matter what i do, it does not work, now i have a D-604 Dlink router then to a motorola cable modem, both computers are running XP Pro.....is there a step by step walk throught, i know there is the windom wizard, but that does not help, ...i wanna do it manually, please help!

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