Mick, I am having similar problems and this is where I have gone for help.
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/dialup/lansetup2_dup.htm

Much of the instructions led me to ping my connection as you did, and my
results are as yours for one connection.
1. I have swithed connection on my hub to a good known port to rule out the
hub.
2. I have swithed the cat5 cable to a known good cable.
3. The next step is to swap out the NIC to a known working NIC (from another
machine that is working). Have not done that yet.

After you rule out all hardware problems, then it will be software
(obviously).

I don't know, but seems that Windows has a limit to how many connections it
will support.
Look for that answer before you go to far.


>From: Mick Fitzpatrick <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Internet Connection Sharing
>Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:44:24 -0000
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rick Thornton" <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
>
> > Hi,
> > I am part of a Seniors computing club.  We have 6 Celeron 733 with 128
>meg
>RAM conected in a network.  I installed the network and it all works well.
>We then set up ICS.  We set up the main computer and prepared a disc which
>we then installed on all the others (you run a file called icslet).  Every
>machine works fine EXCEPT ONE!  When we try to activate either Outlook
>Express 6 or IE we get the message  "Failed to load the Internet Connection
>Wizard helper component."  We have tried to fing this component without
>success even reinstalling Win 98se.  We are truly stuck and we need this
>machine online. Has anyone some advice for us?
> >
>-------------------------------------------------
>
>Rick
>
>Did the box network OK prior to ICS?
>
>I would be suspecting a hard ware problem. If the PC's are close by try the
>suspect one on a different position ... and try a working one on the
>suspect
>position. That should indicate if the the PC hardware and the cabling are
>OK
>(or not!). Prior to that try the 'suspect' one in a different position on
>the hub. As you're doing the fault finding keep notes as it's easy to
>'forget' where one is! :-)
>
>Mick
>
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