confused about setting up home network

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david cords

Hello on Jan 21st I posted a message about getting a home
network going between a desktop running win 2K pro and a
laptop running win xp pro. I currently am running a belkin
wireless router (g version) and wireless card in the
notebook (g version). I was directed to homenethelp.com or
some other site. This site was very informative but I am
confused. Am I supposed to set up a new lan connection in
the my network places and allow this this connection to
share files and printers and microsoft client options? The
site said not to allow sharing for the internet. Now if
this is what I am supposed to do, do I have to disable the
internet connection on both computers to run this
network?? I am very confused about this. Please help me if
you can. Thanks,
David
 
Hi David, I'll try and answer your question as best as I
can.

First off, it's a good thing that you have a router. Do
you have some sort of broadband internet connection
(cable, dsl, satellite, etc.)? If so, that's a great
start. The router will block out alot of the unwanted
incoming traffic you would have if the computer was hooked
directly into the cable modem.

The easiest way to get the PCs to be able to share files,
etc. is to get them into a workgroup. This is very easy
to do. Right click on my computer, goto properties, then
click on the network identification tab and follow the
wizard. I have 3 computers at home, two wired PCs and a
wireless laptop (I'm such a geek), and they're all joined
to my 'House' workgroup. That takes care of all the
printer and file sharing that you'll need.

Since I have a cable modem, the router I have acts as the
default gateway. This is basically the IP address any
external network traffic gets forwarded to (internet
traffic). Setting up internet explorer is very simple,
just follow the internet connection wizard. Use the 'lan'
connection, and the automatic proxy settings and it should
work fine.

I hope this answers your questions. If it doesn't, I will
try and check back to explain myself a little better.
 
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