I am closing my home office business as I am returning to outside work so I am selling my pc and all business equipment. Our home setup is at the moment, from my pc (windows XP Home) I have a Netgear router and NTL broadband attached. My husband uses his laptop downstairs too and my daughters pc is in her bedroom - its all connected to the router and modem.
I can't put the router and modem in my daughters room as the modem has a thick NTL cable attached and the box is downstairs and I can't put the router/modem on my husbands laptop either because he takes it to work sometimes. I want my daughter to be able to access the internet, but how can I set this up so that she can!! Hope its not too confusing! Thanks
2007-06-16 21:52:09 · 2 answers · asked by alipaul2 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Sorry I forgot to add that the ethernet cable plugs into my pc from the modem and then to the router - so I can't see how they can both work if they are not plugged into a pc this way?
2007-06-17 05:39:23 · update #1
The router is a stand alone device and does not need a host computer. You can plug the modem into the routers WAN (internet) port and that will share the internet connection. That is exaclt what a router does.
2007-06-17 08:18:30 · answer #1 · answered by Taba 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As long as the router is working now just leave it alone. A router does not (or at least should not) depend on any particular computer being connected in order for it to work. So just leave the modem and router exactly where they sit and everything else should still work.
2007-06-17 07:05:47 · answer #2 · answered by Tracy L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋