this post is somewhat open in the information, if you can make it more specific then we can give more specific help.
That was easy to say - now the hard part, I will try to see if I can steer you down that "route"
(pun intended
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Are you using dedicated IP or dynamic?
Is wifi involved here? Or all CAT5?
When you say DSL box you mean you have a separate modem, right? is it a USB one? Make/model? (Here if you had not already made purchase of hardware I would have recommended you went for router/modem in one box - even have one I could offer to you over at the trading post if ya wanted to change tack!)
That should be enough to get the ball rolling and show you what I meant - post back soon and watch the gang rally round to get you networked online....
[EDIT] PS welcome to OSNN by the way, do nto worry about how "open" your first post was, nearly everyone does that the first time, and some do it for a long time after too! Noticing you are new around here let me point to the "search" button for the forums, which will often turn up many helpful threads from others with similar problems! Try it now, you may even find a thread I resurrected recently for my DSL problem that needed an MTU change
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