Ok sorry about the delay was headed home from work and thank you all thus far.

@ hcm: Yes I can ping the n900 from my laptop. Windows 7 shows IPv4 and IPv6 no internet access and no network access. It also shows the speed connected to the mobile hotspot on the n900 as 11mbps.

I assume (i know I know) that it is correct as it is in the range that the n900 is issuing when I watch how the backend loads. The ip is 10.176.159.12 and the subnet mask is 255.255.255.0.

It is obtaining an ip address from the n900 still and shows the gateway, dns and dhcp server as the n900. I have tried this from 2 laptops with the same result one running windows xp and my m11x running windows 7.