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I have the following devices:

  1. Desktop Computer (Windows XP Professional)
  2. Laptop Computer (Windows Vista Home Premium)
  3. A USB modem that I want to connect to my Desktop computer (so my Desktop has Internet)
  4. And a Wi-Fi router (D-Link, model: DIR-300) that I want to use in order to create a connection between mentioned two computers to be able to share files and what is the most important thing to make my laptop to have access to the Internet.

What steps I should do to have this system?

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You're saying you are going to dial in with the desktop to the internet then want to share your desktop's connection with the laptop?

Get your desktop working with the Internet.

Connect your desktop and laptop through the wifi router as a switch so they can see each other, at which point you know they're on the same subnetwork. Ping is the utility included on Windows that you want to make friends with for this.

Set up internet connection sharing on XP. See this article.

That should be the overview of what would be needed...

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