setting up the internet with a router
 

the router company's tech support isn't open till monday, i already called.

i don't know where else to turn so i'll post here.

we got a router and shit and the server computer is all fine but we don't know how to set up so that all the other people can get online.

help! :(

kypper and my roommate did it with rogers cable sooo....i'll enlist one of them to tell you because i have no idea.

what kind of router

you have to assign an ip to the other computer w/ the router
and then make sure all attempts at connect are forwarded to one computer.
I'm not sure how, I'll take a look though

Re: setting up the internet with a router
 

Well, what can't you hook up, the wires, the computers to the router? Is it wireless?

Also, do you have the manual?

What Router do you have and how many computers?

i don't know what kind of router it is... i dont' know gah. i'll ahve to call rogers and ask for an ip address. it's a 4 port router so 4 of us... :-/

Wireless or not?

Who's the maker?

The router is supposed to automatically assign IPs through DHCP. The rogers cable line should go into the router, then all the other computers that you want to have internet access should connect to the router.

I think that is how it works, I've never set one up myself but my friend has his network setup that way.

my question is how do we configure the other computers so they can go online?

Well I don't know all the information about your computers setup but you need the following things on those computers:

1. A network card

2. Cable connecting the network card to the router

3. Make sure your network card is installed properly on your machine if Network Neighborhood isn't on your desktop then get your Windows cd and install the network files.

4. I am assuming you will be setting up the computers to all be the same Workgroup name and not a Domain name. So make sure all the computers have all the same Workgroup names.


Other than that I don't think you need to configure much else..... The router should assign the ips and stuff like that.

If it works then there is no further configuring to do, the computers should be able to connect to the net automatically.

so i'd have to set up a network?

we all have those things.

in the manual there should be an ip address which you can type into access the router thru the computers. for my linksys wireless router its 192.168.100 i think. you will have to program all your broadband settings and shit that you can obtain from rogers into the router so that all the computers can share it.

yeah i'll call rogers, the router people and stuff tomorrow. can't deal with it now.

thanks for all the advice... :-/

As far as I know, you just patch all the computers into the router with ethernet cables, and then go to Control Panel > Internet Options > Connections > LAN Settings and either set it to automatically detect or drop in the router's IP address in the box. I haven't actually had to set up a router before though

ICS

windows xp

The internet was all set-up on my computer. We hooked the router to my computer and the ran the cable to my roommate's bedroom and hooked it into her computer...and it just worked, we did nothing else to it.

yeah, that would work, but you would need two network cards in your computer, would you not?

I have no idea. If so, then it was already there. We literally just plugged the stuff in and didn't do anything else.