I currently connect to the internet by tethering off of my cell phone connection. As it stands now I can connect the cell to the laptop and use the cell phones internet to surf the web on the laptop. The connection between the cell and the laptop is a USB wire. However it will not connect to the internet unless I disable the wifi that is built into the telephone first.

Recently I had to do some downloading on a friends computer which was not a laptop and they have Windows XP pro on theirs. I plugged the phone into it and it gave me a hard time at first as it was having issues with the NDIS. I was able to resolve that by installing ActiveSynch on the desktop and that repaired the NDIS issue in Windows so I cold go online with that one but only with my phone plugged into it.

Now what I would like to do is this. I have a hardwire and wifi network set up here. I always have at least two computers on the network as well as network storage and other network devices such as printers.

I have a desktop computer that has two network cards in it. I am thinking if I were to plug the phone into the desktop and run a wire from one of the network cards to the routers Internet port (WAN) and run a separate network wire from the other network card to a hardwire port on the router as well. Then enable internet connection sharing or set the PC up as a gateway. Would that allow me to plug my cell phone into the USB port on the PC and connect to the internet from any pc on my network either hardwired or wifi?

If this will not work can somebody please tell me how I can share out my cell phone connection with my entire network here at home.

That will work.

Actually It does not work at all that way. As soon as I connect the cell phone to the internet and it shares the connection with the first computer it immediately prior to sharing that internet connection will disable any network cards or wifi on that computer. It also disables the wifi built into the telephone as well.

I believe this is built into the ActiveSync software it uses to share out the internet connection. That software is a Microsoft product. The cell phone and the computers are both running microsoft operating systems.

I think I will post on the developers network to see if anyone there can help me out.

Thanks anyhow for the vote of confidence

I will find a way to do this somehow