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How do I get my second computer to connect to the internet?

I have a 2wire homeportal. I have the first computer pluged in by ethernet, and I can go to website, talk to friends on this computer. On my second computer, it allows me to share files with this computer through a network, but I can not browse the interent on it or talk to friends. My 2wire is a wirless dsl external modem. The second computer has a USB connection, and my first computer has the ethernet connection. The computer with the ethernet connection works perfectly fine, the second computer which has earlier had the ethernet conection pluged it, but has the same problem. The computers can share files by using the dsl as a switch, because it has it's own network (MSHOME). They both are setup connected directly to the internet, (host computers). When I had my first computered connected to the DSL with the USB, and the second computer pluged into the first computer with the ethernet cable (directly from the second computer to the first computer) and my first computer was setup as a host computer, and the second computer was set as a a client computer, it still would not allow my to connect to the internet. The second computer has Norton Internet Security, which I am not allowed to change the settings to, if they is my problem.

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1. might want to check the firewall settings on the 2wire, is this computer wireless? if wireless security is set you have to enter the 10 digit number on the bottom of the 2wire, on the one i am familiar with has a 10 digit code in square brackets on the bottom. to check the settings on the 2wire you could get into it and check them. you need to know your default gate way. to find your default gateway if you are using windows xp. click on start,click on run, type in cmd, click o.k., at the prompt type ipconfig, it should show your default gateway, subnet mask, and ip address, make a note of the default gateway, that is the address of your 2wire, open ie or firefox, erase what's in the address bar and in the address bar type the default gateway address exactly as it appeared in the response to ipconfig, hit enter, that should open up the 2wire interface, check the settings. you may also have privacy settings set too high or your software firewall on your computer could be blocking you from the internet...it's really hard to judge without a 2 way conversation.
2. by configure the IP address dont give the default gate way to restrict the net or by using locking software for restricting for only browsing