Problem Sharing an ADSL Connection

and you have two nics on the host machine, correct? is ics set on the nic that isn't connected to the dsl modem?

I've seen a few companies that provide software have a few "hidden" items added in. My service provider for example provides software, but it will also disable ICS on the system. I'm thinking that perhaps you may be having the same issue. What is the name of the software that your using, and what type of software?

is it PPPoE? PPPoA? etc... If we can find this out, we may be able to dig deeper into this issue. If however there is no software being installed, then i'm also at a loss. I've heard of a few companies that block packets that have NAT tags on them.. could that be it?

I have ben able to forget about this problem over the weekend and this afternoon I have managed to sort it.

It's all down to dial-up networking within Windows (I have tried 98SE, ME and XP and they all do the same thing) I think.

If I use the Winroute dialer I can browse the net and get email but if I use Windows to dial then it all fails.

I have played around with all the dial-up settings but what ever I do I can't browse!!!!!!

What possible information can be loaded into a dial-up connection that would cause this to happen?

I would still like to get to the bottom of it as I am going to come across this again I'm sure.

Any more thoughts?