Internet Connection Sharing and Hurricane Katrina

Hi,
I live in Slidell, LA. We were devasted by Hurrican Katrina. I had
cable internet before the storm. They say I might get it back around
Thanksgiving. The Cable CO's cable is laying all over the road for
about a mile. It is like this everywhere. When the power company
rebuilt the power lines and poles, they damaged and broke the cable all
over the place. The DSL provider is swamped with requests too. DSL does
work in my neigborhood and was on just days after the storm passed (a
good reason to get DSL). I have a external USB wireless adapter and
can pick up one of my neighbors wireless network if I hang the antenna
out an upstairs window, or in the attic. I am trying to share that
connection with the rest of my family on our wired/wireless network,
but am having trouble with the Internet Connection Sharing(ICS). I am
running Win2000 and the others are running various flavors of XP
(Home/Pro/Tablet)

This is my setup today. I have the inoperative cable modem connected
to a linksys wireless router with 4 switch ports. I have 5 computers
hooked up and a wireless HP printer. When I try to share the wireless
internet connection from one of my PCs with my home network, it says
that there is already an IP address of 192.168.0.1, which I believe is
my neighbors router. Although it could be my linksys. It gives me an
error, then the wireless adapter loses it's IP address and mask.
Apparently the ICS only works on that IP address.

Here is what I was thinking. Remove my current Linksys router from my
network and get a plain switch to connect my home network. Start my
wireless PC, enable the ICS, and then start the other PCs. Then, maybe
I can share the connection. But then, who is the DHCP server? My
Win2000 machine?

If I can't do that, I have to continue using dial-up until
thanksgiving. A fate worse than death.

Am I thinking in the right direction, and is there something I am
missing? Ideally, I would like to continue to use my wireless/wired
router for our wireless notebooks and printer.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Tom
Slidell, LA

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