OT: question for the computer network gurus ... Options

[SirAndy]

ok, this one has me scratching my head ...


- there's a wireless broadband in my new house. the router is upstairs at my landlords and i have access.

- i use my laptops wireless to connect. laptop is windows XP home. access works fine and is fast.

- i then turned on internet connection sharing on the laptop and used the LAN card to feed the internet into a router.

- i connected my desktop to the router and i'm getting internet on that just fine as well. this box is windows XP as well.

- i don't use DHCP but rather static private IPs instead. range on the LAN is 192.168.0.1 and up. 1 being the routers IP. 10 for the desktop.

so far so good. everything works just fine.


now, two days ago, i added a second machine to the internal LAN. i set up the network the exact same way i did for the other desktop. IP is 11.
the only difference is that the new box is running windows vista home premium.

here's the problem:
on the vista box, i can ping anything just fine. the router, the other desktop, the wireless router upstairs, ANY website out there for a fact. DNS works, ping works,
but when i try to look up a website i always get the "page cannot be displayed" error.
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and it gets even stranger! there's *one* website that works just fine.
i can access google.com without any problems. but nothing else works ...
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- the network routing tables seems to be OK, as i can ping everything just fine.
- DNS works as i can resolve any name to IP.
- basic network protocols work as i can see the other desktop on the network.
- filesharing works as i can transfer files between the two desktops.


i tried and disabled all "security" features. turned off the firewall and windows defender and virus protection and such.
set IE to lowest security settings possible.
same thing, still can't get to any websites on the vista box ... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)


only thing i can think of, maybe the internet sharing on XP is somehow not 100% compatible with vista ???
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HELP (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sheeplove.gif)