Networking questions

[Norvak]

Ok. Now to calm myself and give the problem reasonably.

I'm running two Windows 2000 boxes. One to act as server and one to act as client. I have internet connection sharing up and running to give both machines net access, though that's mainly for my client software.

Here's the archtecture:

Internet
|
Server 192.168.0.1
|
Client 192.168.0.2

I get the server up and running on the server machine fine. I run eqw on my client machine and try to log in through eqemu1.eqemu.net; this is the output to the worldserver window:

122707 New client from ip: 192.168.0.2 port: 144
Logged in: LS#5479: Norvak
Logged in: LS#5479: Norvak
Logged in: LS#5479: Norvak
Logged in: LS#5479: Norvak
Logged in: LS#5479: Norvak
Logged in: LS#5479: Norvak
Logged in: LS#5479: Norvak
Logged in: LS#5479: Norvak
Logged in: LS#5479: Norvak
Logged in: LS#5479: Norvak
Logged in: LS#5479: Norvak
Logged in: LS#5479: Norvak
Logged in: LS#5479: Norvak
Logged in: LS#5479: Norvak
Logged in: LS#5479: Norvak
Logged in: LS#5479: Norvak
Logged in: LS#5479: Norvak
Client disconnected
Removing client from ip:192.168.0.2 port:1448
131209 New client from ip: 192.168.0.2 port: 1448
Logged in: LS#5479: Norvak
Logged in: LS#5479: Norvak
Logged in: LS#5479: Norvak
Client disconnected
Removing client from ip:192.168.0.2 port:1448

It is my understanding that ICS changes the packet sizes. That's fine, but how do I fix this?

I CANNOT install a router on my network, because it is incompatible with my internet connection hardware.

So needless to say, I'm stumped and about -><- this close to just deleting the server altogether.

Any ideas? I've been at this for days.