could be, if the Wireless and Wired are bridged then full communication is always available, if the interfaces are kept separate and handled by the router than rules can interfere.

Two wired PCs would normally communicate via the 4-port switch on a typical router without bothering the router itself.

I solved my XP/Vista networking problem

From an idea I had for another Windows thread here, I changed my Win user name on XP back to the same as Vista. Now Vista can see XP over network & v.v.

I think I once changed it to be diff for some reason I've yet to rediscover.

I thought Vista networking had a setting "Password Protection Sharing" OFF to allow diff user names. I had it OFF all the time but not until I changed the names to be the same did it work .

I've seen threads where having a password on the Guest account breaks the password protection "off" feature, and also where something else was preventing it from working...

"I figured
that there might be a security setting that I had set incorrectly, so I went
into "Administrative Tools\Local Policies\Security Options" and went down
the list and set everything to its default setting. I did the same thing
with "User Rights Assignment". I then went to the "Network and Sharing"
center and it worked. "

In reply to a post by cutehenry:

Thanks to everyone who contributed. I don't have an answer but I know from experience that one can spend hou
I have two options for action:
rs 'wasting' time on such problems - it is fun (for me) to spend time on logical analysis and learning, but there are other interesting things to do, like Christmas.

Hi did you have any luck getting this configured to work wirelessly in the end?

In reply to a post by techlad:

In reply to a post by cutehenry:

Hi did you have any luck getting this configured to work wirelessly in the end?

No, sorry. I spoke with EE (ex-Orange) who will talk with the person who wrote the firmware for the router. If he writes a solution, my Brightbox firmware will automatically be upgraded. (Not sure how I will know though.)

I 'solved' the problem by disabling the wifi on the Brightbox, plugging the old router into the Brightbox, and configuring it as a wifi access point. It wastes some electricity and adds to the mess of cables, but it works.