I believe that you can eliminate ICS by using the XP networking wizard. 
Check the "Internet gateway" choice when prompted.
Your wireless problem may also have to do with udpdating  the 
router/adapter firmware.


Larry Adler (Cebridge) wrote:
> I recently networked my desktop computer to my home and work laptops. Things
> were going along well until I developed some sort of conflict between my
> Windows-configured wireless connection and my laptop wireless adapters,
> different brands, in which I would gradually lose the connection on either
> laptop, and could only get it back by unchecking the "use Windows to
> configure the wireless configuration" box on each laptop. The rub there is
> that when rebooting, I would have to go in and recheck the "use Windows" box
> to obtain a connection to begin with.
> 
> I'm wondering if my problem isn't the fact that I established internet
> connection sharing between the three PCs, not realizing it was not really
> needed. Here's my problem: I have no way of "turning off" ICS. The place
> where you're supposed to be able to disable it, the "Advanced" tab of the
> LAN properties window, does not have the ICS information it is supposed to
> have. Does anyone know why that is, or if there is a way to disable ICS some
> other way, like the registry?

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