Broken Internet connection

[Dan]

Hi all,
I have a 2 Windows XP SP2 PC'S and each one of them with 2 LAN cards and one
USB dial up ADSL line.
The following elaboration represents each of them.
The PC was always connected to the Internet via the first LAN card and
switch an the other card was always disabled and disconnected. As I
connected this second card directly, without a switch, to the other PC (with
a special opposite cable) the Internet connection was broken and I can't
renew it.
To summarize the situation now is so-
1. The PC's communicate with each other with ping on both cards.
2. The connection to the Internet is broken on both PC's throgh the switch.
3. The connection to the Internet works fine on the USB ADSL connection.

Can someone advise please?

Regards
Dan

 

[Steve Winograd]

Hi all,
I have a 2 Windows XP SP2 PC'S and each one of them with 2 LAN cards and one
USB dial up ADSL line.
The following elaboration represents each of them.
The PC was always connected to the Internet via the first LAN card and
switch an the other card was always disabled and disconnected. As I
connected this second card directly, without a switch, to the other PC (with
a special opposite cable) the Internet connection was broken and I can't
renew it.
To summarize the situation now is so-
1. The PC's communicate with each other with ping on both cards.
2. The connection to the Internet is broken on both PC's throgh the switch.
3. The connection to the Internet works fine on the USB ADSL connection.

Can someone advise please?

Regards
Dan

On each computer, make sure that:

1. All of the network connections (first LAN card, second LAN card,
USB ADSL) use different subnets.

2. The network connection for the second LAN card doesn't have a
default gateway specified.
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