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Old 07-14-2005
dangral dangral is offline Forum Advisor  
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Originally Posted by Steve_H
I've got a mini switched hub and two computers running winXP, the first computer to start up grabs an ip address and is fine, the second doesn't get an ip address. Is this a configuration issue or is it because my ISP won't allow me to share the connection?
Probably the latter. You should buy a router.