I want to network my computers...?

Question

I have two computers and DSL. I want to hook up a network router but I know absolutely NOTHING about this, so if someone could talk me through it, I would be ETERNALLY grateful!!

Answer 1

Are you going with a wireless router or a wired router? Ar both computers going to be wireless or just one?

The physical connections would look like this:

-Cable from phone jack to dsl modem
-Ethernet cable from DSL modem to router
-Connect a computer to the router (either wireless or wired and open a web browser window
-Follow the instructions in your install guide for the router and everything should be fine.

Answer 2

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Physical Connection Instructions:
1.) Connect your DSL Device to your phone jack.
2.) Connect your Router to your DSL Device
a.) Plug the Cable coming from the DSL Device to the
Port on your Router that stands out.
3.) Connect each computer to a port on your router.
Computer Settings:
Do This on Each Computer
1.) Click Start
2.) Click Settings
3.) Click Control Panel
4.) Click Network Connections
5.) Right Click Local Area Connection
6.) Click Enable
7.) Your Internet Should Be Working.

You may need to do the following:
1.)Open Internet Explorer.
2.)Open Internet Options From the Menu
3.)Select Connections TAB
4.)Click Lan Settings Button
5.)Click Automatically Detect Settings.
6.) or configure a proxy server.
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-----------------Home Networking------------------
That is the simples form of networking.
If you want to share files, you need to Make sure both computers are part of the same Domain/Workgroup
You do that in system properties by:
1.) right click my computer, select properties
2.) Click Computer Name Tab
3.) Click Change Button
4.) Change The Workgroup(make the same on both comps)
5.) Click Ok

Next you need to make sure you have a user account on both computers.

1.) Click Start
2.) Click Settings
3.) Click Control Panel
4.) Click user Accounts
5.) Click Create A New Account
6.) Create The Account On Both Computers And Set A
Password

Next You Need To Make Sure You Can Access your Computer Remotly:

1.) Right Click My Computer
2.) Select Properties
3.) Select Remote Tab
4.) Check The "allow remote assistance invitations to be sent from this computer" checkbox
5.) Click Advanced
6.) Check Allow this computer to be controlled remotly
7.) Click OK
8.) Click Apply
9.) Click OK

You Have Now Setup a LAN(Local Area Network)

You Can Now Use REMOTE DESKTOP

You need to know the IP ADDRESS of each computer to use REMOTE DESKTOP

To find this out you do the following:
1.) Click Start
2.) Click Run
3.) Type in CMD
4.) in the Black Console Window, Type IPCONFIG/ALL
5.) Make a Note Of the IP address

Now that you have the ip address you can use remote desktop by doing the following:

1.) Click Start
2.) Expand All Programs
3.) Expand Accessories
4.) Expand Communications
5.) Click Remote Desktop Connection
6.) Click Options
7.) Next To The "Computer" Textbox, Enter The Target Computers IP address.
8.) Enter The Username
9.) Enter The Password
10.) Click Connect
11.) You Should Now Have A Window Open that has the desktop of the target computer.
12.) when you move the mouse in the window of the target computer, the mouse will move on the target computer as well. It will be as if you are sitting right at the other computer.