With your current configuration, as long as your XP Pro computer is in
Bridge mode (NOT Internet Connection Sharing, ICS) then all the
computers should be able to see each other and the router.  If you've
set up the XP computer with ICS then anything attached to the hub will
have a hard time seeing the laptop and vice versa.

If I were in your shoes, I'd do one of two things:
1) Hook the hub directly to the router.  This will allow all computers
to see each other as long as you've configured them to do so.
2) Hook the Cable modem to the XP computer with ICS turned on, hook the
output to the hub, and hook the hub to the ethernet (Local port, not
WAN) of the router.  The WAN would be unconnected, and it will not
function as a router.  Turn off DHCP on the router.

Either of those two setups will put all the computers on the same
network segment, and they'll have as good a chance at seeing each other
as they would if they were all hooked up to the hub directly.

Unless there's a special need for the XP Pro to be doing the internet
sharing, I'd suggest option one - let the dedicated router do its job,
let the hub do its job, and free the xp computer from the chain - it's
just another point of failure, and link that needs to be debugged in
situations like this.

-Adam

John Ferrell wrote:

>If you find this too far off topic, please just delete...
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>I am trying to implement a wireless connection to my laptop.
>I now realize that I probably should not have purchased a router, a wireless access point would have done the job.
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>Schematic at http://home.earthlink.net/~johnferrell/Network1.jpg
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>The problem is that in the configuration I have created, the laptop gets to the internet just fine but does not appear in my local network.
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>All network machines have internet access through Internet Connection Sharing on the XP PRO computer.
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>Should it have access to the local network?
>Would a link from the hub back to the router introduce more problems?
>If nothing else works, will the router introduce any more problems if I try to use it as an access point by plugging it to the hub?
>
>If the question is too far off topic, just let it die a quiet death please!
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>John Ferrell
>http://DixieNC.US
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