Ok. The long awaited day has arrived. Cable internet will be installed at my house on Wednesday. Here's my question. I currently have 4 computers all running XP at home. They are connected by a wireless peer to peer network. One computer( mine) uses ISDN for internet and gaming while the other three use dial-up ( they just surf a bit). Ideally all four computers would like to share this cable. It is likely that only one or two will be active at any given time. Maximum is three unless the college boys are home. So what would be the best way to connect them all so I know before the cable guys shows up on Wednesday.

i assume it is a 802.11b/g type network? if so just get a wireless router. this will connect directly to the cable modem and it will share the internet to all the machines. then u wont have to worry about one machine being up for another be able to connect to the internet.

The only thing that you will need is to get a Router (Linksys, Hawking, Netgear, Dlink (brand names)) from a store and then connect the cable modem to that router and then all the computers to the router. If you have the money, go for a wireless network using the 802.11G standard. It is the best standard for wireless networking out there.

One note. When you hook up the router, turn off the cable modem and router, then turn on the router (2 to 3 mins later) and then turn on the router. Then follow the router manuall to get the router configured and operable.

Well , I'm up and running and loving the broadband connection. I bought a wireless router and used the USB access points I already had. Hurray.

Good to hear Monty. Most new routers are so easy to setup. Just plug and play.

I hope that you went in and enabled the wireless security in your router because they are unsecure out of the box.

Alister

Would that be called the WEB ?

It's a bit of a sidenote, but connected to ICS in Windows. I tried to share an internet connection on Win98SE - once it worked, then I had to reinstall, and now, no chance to get it work again. I tried again on another network, this time with WinXP, neither dial-up nor DSL could be shared. It's good to have ICS built in op systems, even better would be if they would actually WORK.

Of course it's a possibility that I was the bad part in those systems, but I wouldn't consider that a real possibility. And yes, I've read all available manuals to all this on the web, but to no avail. Getting a router is not possible, in any of the cases, too expensive.

Ok, I know this was Off topic, sorry Just my rant for the day

Ok. Just a wee problem. I have a Wireless router hooked up to my wife's cable modem. I have hardwired her and my computer from this router. The two upstairs computers are connected by wireless.The one in the hall ( closer to the kitchen unit where the router is) gets a pretty good signal and doesn't seem to have much problem. The one in my daughter's room keeps losing signal and dropping her connection. It seems to go off and on. Is there some way to make the thing more stable? A signal booster? Say what?

If you got a Linksys router you can get a Linksys booster... in my experience, the Linksys seems to have more range than my Netgear did.

It's a D-link. Do they make them for D-link?

Is this what you are talking about?

No... damn kids stole my notes.

The Linksys model is WSB24