Need help removing a network

All right, so, basically, I need help removing a network, because I have no clue how to do it. I have two computers. One is a Mac G5 running OS X. The other is a laptop running Windows XP. I have a cable modem, which, typically, is connected to the Mac, with a wireless router so I can do the Net thing on my laptop. About a week ago, I started setting up a network using the Network Setup Wizard on Windows. But I seem to have made a mistake. Rather than creating the network on the Mac and then adding my laptop to it, I created the network on my laptop. And while I didn't indicate that my laptop would be the network's main computer, the network seems to think that it is because the Internet refuses to work on the Mac anymore, and now the only way I can get online is if I plug the modem directly into the laptop. I'd like to think that the network is physically stored on the modem somewhere. I have no idea if this is actually possible, but someone told me it was. By my estimation, then, I'm assuming that if I plug the modem directly into the laptop, I'll be able to remove the network and return everything to normal. But I don't know how to remove the network, and I don't really know if my plan would even work. Can anyone help me? I'm at a total loss here.

 

Rerun the wizard on the on the Laptop and make sure you tell it the it connects through another computer to the internet.

Let me know if you have issues after that.

 

Well, when I set up the network, I told Network Wizard right from the start that the laptop's Internet ran through another computer. But the other computer I was referring to -- the iMac -- wasn't, and isn't, on the network yet. My gut tells me that's what's causing the problem. The network is looking for the other computer the laptop's Internet runs through, and it can't find it because the other computer isn't on the network. That's why the Internet only works when I plug the modem directly into the laptop. Could that be right?

 

Yes that would be the reason.

 

Honestly, I think I would just rather remove the network altogether and start over some other time. How would I go about removing it?

 

If you ran the networking wizard, check in Network Connections to see if it shows a "Bridged" connection. If that is the case, remove the Bridge and everything will work.

What happens when you ran Networking Wizard, is that it will show you a box with all your networking connections (ie WiFi, Wired, 1394), and if you do not uncheck anything, it will create a Bridged connection.

As for removing it, you really cannot, unless you want to try unloading the networking properties for that particular connection in Devices by UnInstalling the device in question under Networks.