How do I hook up my router?

Question

We recently moved out to the country and we have a satelite for our high speed internet. I knew how to hook up the router before , when we lived in town. But now it is more complicated because of the line that comes from the satelite into our house and plugged into the computer. It has some other plug-in thingy that connects the satelite cable to an ethernet cable then into our computer ethernet slot. Does anyone know how to get our wireless internet to work, including connecting our router without messing up our main internet line? PLEASE SERIOUS ANSWERS ONLY!

Answer 1

As I understand from you , connect a cross cable from your v-sat to the router(WAN) and configure your router -wan port , then configure your LAN and connect your wireless to the router ( LAN ) , now add your IP that fixed in your router ( LAN ).
if you want send me a diagram for your network and your router brand name then i can design it for you
Regards

Amir

Answer 2

You don't have to bother about the "thingy" that connects the ethernet cable to the satelite dish. You just need to fosus on the
ethernet cable and that's all.

What are the steps:
-open network connections, then right-click the active connection, choose properties, highlight internet protocol tcp/ip and write down the parameters for your connection (ip address, subnet mask, gateway, dns).
-plug-in the router into the mains and enter its configuration page (you said that you have done this before so I assume you know how to do that).
-set the appropiate values for the parameters above (ip, gateway, subnet, etc)
-connect the computers to the router
-that's about all, you should aces the internt without any problems
-plug-in the ethernet cable (the one that was in your pc) into the router's wan port

What should you look after for:
-i don't know what type of addresses you had before you moved out of the country. Were they static or dinamic. In oher words, was the router set to dhcp or not? If the router was set to dhcp you should set the computers tcp/ip properties accordingly. To do that open network connections, then right-click the active connection, choose properties, highlight internet protocol tcp/ip and set obtain ip to automatically. the same thing for the dns. Set it to obtain dns automatically.
-if you computer has no wireless nic then you should plus it in into one of the router's lan ports. Usually every router has at least 4 of them. But I can't guarantee that since you haven't specified the router model.

Let me know please if you have any questions.