Looking for easy to understand router instructions

We are being broadband activated tomorrow. (Friday). We have been sent
by my Wife's company a D-Link DSL 502T Router. (The company are
supplying and paying for, the broadband connection!)
I already have a LAN between my laptop and my Desktop via a Netgear 4
port hub. What will happen is that my Wife's laptop and the router will
both connect into the remaining two ports on the hub. All machines are
running XP, mine are SP2 (not sure about the wife's as it's a new
machine that hasn't been switched on yet)
I need easy to understand (ie 1. connect router. 2. configure router.
3. do x on machine 1. 2 do x on machine 2 etc etc) steps in order to
allow all three machines to share the broadband connection. (I've had a
look at adslguide.org and practicallynetworked.com and there doesn't
seem to be what I'm looking for there). The manual with the router is a
bit confusing and complicated!

Thanks

Gordon <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>We are being broadband activated tomorrow. (Friday). We have been sent
>by my Wife's company a D-Link DSL 502T Router. (The company are
>supplying and paying for, the broadband connection!)
>I already have a LAN between my laptop and my Desktop via a Netgear 4
>port hub. What will happen is that my Wife's laptop and the router will
>both connect into the remaining two ports on the hub. All machines are
>running XP, mine are SP2 (not sure about the wife's as it's a new
>machine that hasn't been switched on yet)
>I need easy to understand (ie 1. connect router. 2. configure router.
>3. do x on machine 1. 2 do x on machine 2 etc etc) steps in order to
>allow all three machines to share the broadband connection. (I've had a
>look at adslguide.org and practicallynetworked.com and there doesn't
>seem to be what I'm looking for there). The manual with the router is a
>bit confusing and complicated!


You'll need to attach the router to your network, (I suggest you initially plug a
machine directly to the router if it allows this. I've done a quick google and it
doesn't appear to have a built in switch, so you'll still need to use your hub.

When it's attached you need to log onto the router. Usually this is done via a
browser - you simply type the router's IP address into the browser's address bar. You
may hit a probelm here if the router's IP address range is different to the ones in
use on your network if you've set them manually. Anyway once you log in you can then
set up your router.

I suggest you then configure your LAN manually, seting your IP addresses to fit in
with the router. For example if the Router's IP address is 192.168.1.1 Subnet
255.255.255.0, then setup each of your machines manually to reflect this range, so
the next IP address you use will be 192.168.1.2 etc. You need to set the "gateway"
address in WinXP to the router's IP address and the DNS servers used by your ISP in
the DNS settings.

Repeat for each machine.

IMPORTANT! :

Make sure you patch every machine with the latest patches from M$ and install a
firewall such as ZoneAlarm on every machine. Also make sure that your virus siftware
stays up to date - I use NOD32 as I find it works well on a network, but preferences
are personal.

I hope this is of help; post if my waffle above isn't clear.


--
Andy Sayers - Lincolnshire, UK
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use the newsgroup, email address is fictitious.

Gordon wrote:
> We are being broadband activated tomorrow. (Friday). We have been sent
> by my Wife's company a D-Link DSL 502T Router. (The company are
> supplying and paying for, the broadband connection!)
> I already have a LAN between my laptop and my Desktop via a Netgear 4
> port hub. What will happen is that my Wife's laptop and the router will
> both connect into the remaining two ports on the hub.

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>
> Thanks

Does your Hub have an Uplink Port(UP) or a Port crossover switch(CS).
If you have a UP connect this to your Router/Modem(RM).
If you have a CS switch in and connect RM to this Port.
If you have neither you will need to connect a crossover cable between
the RM and a Hub Port.

Reasoning.
Normal Hub operation
Port 1 Tx---->Hub-------->Rx Ports2,3&4
Rx---->Hub-------->Tx Ports2,3&4
Port 2 Tx---->Hub-------->Rx Ports1,3&4
Rx---->Hub-------->Tx Ports1,3&4
etc....

To connect PC to R/M you need
TX.---------------->Tx
Rx----------------->Rx

nbt

">
> Does your Hub have an Uplink Port(UP) or a Port crossover switch(CS).
> If you have a UP connect this to your Router/Modem(RM).
> If you have a CS switch in and connect RM to this Port.
> If you have neither you will need to connect a crossover cable between the
> RM and a Hub Port.
>
> Reasoning.
> Normal Hub operation
> Port 1 Tx---->Hub-------->Rx Ports2,3&4
> Rx---->Hub-------->Tx Ports2,3&4
> Port 2 Tx---->Hub-------->Rx Ports1,3&4
> Rx---->Hub-------->Tx Ports1,3&4
> etc....
>
> To connect PC to R/M you need
> TX.---------------->Tx
> Rx----------------->Rx
>
> nbt

For the Pedants amongst us this does not indicate direction of data flow but
merely indicates there is a "connection" but these points.
nbt

Gordon wrote:
> We are being broadband activated tomorrow. (Friday). We have been sent
> by my Wife's company a D-Link DSL 502T Router. (The company are
> supplying and paying for, the broadband connection!)
> I already have a LAN between my laptop and my Desktop via a Netgear 4
> port hub. What will happen is that my Wife's laptop and the router will
> both connect into the remaining two ports on the hub. All machines are
> running XP, mine are SP2 (not sure about the wife's as it's a new
> machine that hasn't been switched on yet)
> I need easy to understand (ie 1. connect router. 2. configure router.
> 3. do x on machine 1. 2 do x on machine 2 etc etc) steps in order to
> allow all three machines to share the broadband connection. (I've had a
> look at adslguide.org and practicallynetworked.com and there doesn't
> seem to be what I'm looking for there). The manual with the router is a
> bit confusing and complicated!
>
> Thanks

Thanks for all the replies - in fact it was MUCH easier than that! The
router came pre-configured - I just connected it to the hub and bingo!
Nothing else to do!