somewhere on the network, probably the linksys or one of the computers, there's a firewall keeping them from seeing one another then, because those IP's are fine.

when you do an ipconfig /all does it give the same IP address for "gateway" for both? can you ping the gateway from both machines? The gateway is the router and both machines can get to the internet so this should work.

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