Connect XP to my gateway(dsl modem and wireless router) but not to the internet?

[Chen Z]

Win XP support will end today. My XP computer still works great and I want to keep it in my current home network but not to the internet. Currently, my home network is built with the DSL modem+wireless router. Devices connected to the router automatically connects to the internet. I want to cut off the XP computer internet connection but keep the Ethernet connection to the home network. How to do this? I try to configure the router but can't figure this out. I try to disable the internet TCP/IP but it will also disable the connection to the home network.

Anybody can help?

[krish]

try to uninstall driver in xp computer for internet and reinstall it on lan

[BigE]

Even though you might use DHCP, you can set the default route to anything you like. Just set the default route to something else, like 1.2,3.4. or just use static ip and set all the parameters.

[Richard]

Go into the TCP/IPv4 settings for the network adapter in your computer that it is using to connect to the router.

Set a static IP address that is in the same sub-net as the router is using, but is outside the range of addresses the router's DHCP server is using. If necessary, reduce the range of addresses that that the router can use for DHCP to free off an address.

On the computer, leave the gateway and DNS server addresses empty. Now the computer can access the local sub-net, but not use the Internet.

I hope this helps.

[William]

Richard asked me to add this comment:

As your router's DHCP address range is 64 to 253, and your router is on 254, you can use any address from 1 to 63 for static addresses.

He says "Yes, you did it correctly".